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