[PATCH] Add a vga alias node for P1022

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Nov 14 04:21:43 EST 2013


On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 00:28 -0600, Jin Zhengxiong-R64188 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jin Zhengxiong-R64188
> > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 5:33 PM
> > To: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; galak at kernel.crashing.org; Jin
> > Zhengxiong-R64188
> > Subject: [PATCH] Add a vga alias node for P1022
> > 
> > From: Jason Jin <Jason.jin at freescale.com>
> > 
> > When the vga was set as the stdout and stderr in u-boot, the stdout fixup
> > code in u-boot need to find out the vga alias node in dtb.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Jin <Jason.jin at freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1022si-post.dtsi | 2 +-
> > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1022si-pre.dtsi  | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> [Jason Jin-R64188] Any comments about this patch? Thanks.

This isn't a VGA-compatible device.  If this is needed by U-Boot, please
provide a comment explaining the compatibility issue, and ideally also
provide a display alias so that no other components grow dependencies on
the vga alias.

-Scott





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