From: thierry.reding@gmail•com (Thierry Reding)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/panel: simple: Add support for Innolux AT070TN92
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:30:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160422223047.GA22161@mithrandir.ba.sec> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ffrp3fc.fsf@gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:11:19PM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail•com> writes:
> > Applied, thanks.
>
> I once read that this is the recommended way to go, instead of
> specifying the timings in the device tree. Why is this so? Any new
> display just increases the .text size of the kernel unnessary.
It's actually only the .rodata section that's increased every time we
add a new display panel.
> Did this idea stem from the era where bootloaders like Barebox couldn't
> modify the DT ad-hoc before handing it over to the kernel?
No, not really. But since this has come up every now and again I finally
wrote down my recollection and thoughts on the matter, hopefully that
will be satisfactory as an answer:
http://sietch-tagr.blogspot.com/2016/04/display-panels-are-not-special.html
Thierry
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-20 13:37 [PATCH v2] drm/panel: simple: Add support for Innolux AT070TN92 Boris Brezillon
2016-04-20 13:40 ` Thierry Reding
2016-04-21 12:11 ` Holger Schurig
2016-04-22 22:30 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
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