Re: Re HDMI transmitter interface

[Christoph Egger <christoph_egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 23.09.14 um 17:26 schrieb Matt Thomas:
> 
> On Sep 23, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
>>   Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:41:25 +0200
>>   From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
>>
>>   On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>>> If it's GPL, we can make kernel modules.
>>
>>   That is not very practical for display drivers on platforms like Manuel
>>   is working on.
>>
>> Why not?  Can't the boot loader load modules?
> 
> No, arm is typically only monolithic kernels.  There is no NetBSD bootloader,
> just u-boot or similar.
> 

AFAIK arm has a device tree in the firmware you use to load modules.

Christoph