On 18 January 2016 at 19:52, Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
The existing LCD/video interface suffers from conflating the bitmap display with text output on that display. As a result the implementation is more complex than it needs to me.
We can support multiple text console drivers. Create a separate uclass to support this, with its own API.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Acked-by: Anatolij Gustschin agust@denx.de
Changes in v2:
- Fix reference to \n which should be \b
- Fix 'withthe' typo in comment
drivers/video/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/video/vidconsole-uclass.c | 239 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/video/video-uclass.c | 21 ++++ include/dm/uclass-id.h | 1 + include/video_console.h | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 398 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 drivers/video/vidconsole-uclass.c create mode 100644 include/video_console.h
Applied to u-boot-dm