Hi Stephen, On 18 January 2016 at 12:57, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote: > On 01/14/2016 01:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote: >> >> The original tegra20 display driver was written before Linux had device >> tree >> bindings for display. Since then Linux has developed a robust set of >> bindings >> covering various aspects of enabling a display. >> >> This series moves closer to those bindings by using the panel and >> backlight >> as separate drivers. The device tree files for seaboard, ventana and >> harmony >> thereby become almost the same as Linux. >> >> Unfortunately this breaks the other boards, which will need a similar >> sync. >> So I'm not sure how easy it will be to accept this series. Still, it seems >> worth sending it out in the hope that board maintainers can help. I have >> kept this series separate so that it can progress separately. > > > Can't that be handled by placing the new code under an ifdef, so the source > code can support either the old or the new scheme, then each board can be > converted over and the ifdef flipped in its per-board config file, then the > ifdef removed once all boards are converted?
To some extent, although there is the common tegra20.dtsi and lots of common code. It was more pain than I was willing to bear. Another option is to eventually disable LCD for boards where the maintainers don't respond. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
