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authorAhmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>2021-08-25 11:27:01 +0200
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2021-10-05 13:51:12 +0200
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Documentation: framebuffer: remove note about lack of backlight support
barebox supports PWM backlight. Remove the notice about lack of support. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> Link: https://lore.barebox.org/20210825092701.30436-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/user/framebuffer.rst b/Documentation/user/framebuffer.rst
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--- 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