[PATCH 5/5] DRM: Armada: add support for drm tda19988 driver

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf at free.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:59:39 -0400
> Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jean-François, just as an aside, I really don't think code that can be
>> shared, like tda998x, should encode a DT requirement.. there are
>> plenty of platforms that don't use DT (arm isn't everything, and last
>> I heard aarch64 was going to be ACPI).
>>
>> Beyond that, it is a driver decision whether or not to support only-DT
>> or DT + other.. and as long as there is a common board which can use
>> the driver but which is not DT, there is probably a compelling reason
>> to still support the non-DT case.
>
> Rob,
>
> The Cubox is an open platform, and I use it just like a desktop PC.
> When its required drivers will be in the mainline, I will do the same
> as I do with PCs: I will not recompile a specific kernel each time
> there are kernel bugs or security issues. Instead, I will just upgrade
> my system from my distributor (Debian), and, in the packages, there
> will be a generic mvebu kernel as there is already one for Marvell
> Armada 370/xp, Freescale iMX5x/iMX6 (linux-image-3.10-3-armmp).
> But, for that, all the Cubox specific stuff must be described in a DT.

sure, I'm not saying *not* to support DT (send patches if need be).
I'm just saying that it should be ok to also support non-DT case and
that shared components (like tda998x) should also still work in non-DT
case.

BR,
-R

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