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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
To: Marc Reilly <marc@cpdesign.com.au>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ARM i.MX28 tx28: use a fixed framebuffer address
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:48:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y66i8xel.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201101180949.35371.marc@cpdesign.com.au> (Marc Reilly's message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:49:35 +1100")

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Reilly <marc@cpdesign.com.au> writes:

Hi,

 Marc> Purely out of interest, what is the advantage/necessity for
 Marc> having the frame buffer at a fixed address?

Presumably to be able to reuse the buffer in Linux for flicker free
booting.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-18  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-17 10:22 i.MX28 patches v2 Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] video stm/mx2x: simplify memory allocation Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] video stm/mx2x: allow to pass in fb memory from platform data Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 17:56   ` [PATCH 2/4 v2] " Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM i.MX28 tx28: use a fixed framebuffer address Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:59   ` Juergen Beisert
2011-01-17 22:49     ` Marc Reilly
2011-01-18  7:48       ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2011-01-18  9:41         ` Juergen Beisert
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM i.MX28 tx28 defconfig: enable MMU Sascha Hauer

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