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* [PATCH] Documentation: framebuffer: remove note about lack of backlight support
@ 2021-08-25  9:27 Ahmad Fatoum
  2021-10-04 11:53 ` Sascha Hauer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ahmad Fatoum @ 2021-08-25  9:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: barebox; +Cc: Ahmad Fatoum

barebox supports PWM backlight. Remove the notice about lack of support.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/user/framebuffer.rst | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user/framebuffer.rst b/Documentation/user/framebuffer.rst
index 8b95ad6b8700..d17df822f299 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/framebuffer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/framebuffer.rst
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ Framebuffer support
 Framebuffer splash screen
 -------------------------
 
-barebox supports BMP and PNG graphics using the :ref:`command_splash` command. barebox
-currently has no support for backlights, so unless there is a board specific enable
-hook for enabling a display it must be done manually with a script. Since barebox
+barebox supports BMP and PNG graphics using the :ref:`command_splash` command. Since barebox
 has nothing useful to show on the framebuffer it doesn't enable it during startup.
 A framebuffer can be enabled with the ``enable`` parameter of the framebuffer device:
 
@@ -39,7 +37,7 @@ A typical script to enable the framebuffer could look like this:
   # wait for signals to become stable
   msleep 100
 
-  # finally enable backlight
+  # finally enable backlight manually if no driver exists
   gpio_direction_output 42 1
 
 Framebuffer console
-- 
2.30.2


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