Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4

Peter Mendham petermendham at computing.dundee.ac.uk
Tue Apr 24 23:54:55 EST 2007


Andrei Konovalov wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
>> On 4/24/07, Peter Mendham <petermendham at computing.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am wanting to use the Xilinx TFT controller from the ML403/5 
>>> reference
>>> project (probably from ML300 as well) under a 2.6.20.4 kernel.  I have
>>> Grant Likely's patchset applied in which there is a platform device
>>> entry for the framebuffer.  Does anyone know if there is mainline
>>> support for the Xilinx-style framebuffer?  If so, how do I enable 
>>> it?  I
>>> have included framebuffer support in my kernel build, but I assume I
>>> need a driver also? Any tips greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Heh, I've got a driver.  I just haven't published it yet.  Give me a 
>> few days...
>>
>> g.
>>
>
> We have one too :)
>
Do you have a patch that I can apply to a mainline kernel to include the 
driver?

Thanks,
-- Peter


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