[PATCH RFC 06/15] drm/armada: move variant initialisation to CRTC init

[Sebastian Hesselbarth]

On 07/11/2014 04:37 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> On 07/05/2014 12:38 PM, Russell King wrote:
>>> Move the variant initialisation entirely to the CRTC init function -
>>> the variant support is really about the CRTC properties than the whole
>>> system, and we want to treat each CRTC individually when we support DT.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
>>> ---
>> [...]
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.h
>>> index 531a9b0bdcfb..3f0e70bb2e9c 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.h
>>> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct armada_crtc {
>>>   	unsigned		num;
>>>   	void __iomem		*base;
>>>   	struct clk		*clk;
>>> +	struct clk		*extclk[2];
>>
>> Russell,
>>
>> I wonder, if we should rename above array srcclk instead of extclk
>> while moving it anyway. That way we can use it for the other variant
>> specific clocks, too.
>
> As the patches are prepared with this change, I'd prefer to submit them
> as-is, and then we can update that as and when the support for things
> like the MMP/610 is finished off.  I think they're good to go, so I'll
> send them off later today to David.

Ok, sounds fine to me.

> This leaves the TDA998x componentisation patches which I need to kick
> out, and the initial DT changes.  Once those are in place, we should
> have almost all ducks lined up for working DRM support - it'll certainly
> be advanced enough to describe the LCD controllers and the TDA998x as
> three separate DT entities using the of graph helpers.

Ok.

> What's left is the display-subsystem { } entity to describe the makeup
> of the subsystem.  That's not included as we currently need to pass
> a block of memory, and the DT support for reserving chunks of memory
> appeared (last time I looked) to only be botch-merged (only half of it
> seems to have been merged making the whole reserved memory thing
> totally useless - why people only half-merge features I've no idea.)

There was a follow-up patch set for this some days ago
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/337686

Sebastian