[PATCH v2 0/5] ARM: da850: new drivers for better LCDC support

[Sekhar Nori]

+ Arnd, Olof

On Monday 31 October 2016 08:15 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> This series adds two new drivers in order to better support the LCDC
> rev1 present on the da850 boards.
> 
> The first patch adds a new memory driver which allows to write to the
> DDR2/mDDR memory controller present on the da8xx SoCs.
> 
> The second patch adds a new bus driver which allows to interact with
> the MSTPRI registers of the SYSCFG0 module

I think patches 1/5 and 2/5 are ready to be merged. If there are no
objections I would like to send a pull request for them to be merged
through ARM-SoC tree for v4.10 kernel.

Thanks,
Sekhar

> 
> As is mentioned in the comments: we don't want to commit to supporting
> stable interfaces (DT bindings or sysfs attributes) so we hardcode the
> settings required by some boards (for now only da850-lcdk) with the
> hope that linux gets an appropriate framework for performance knobs
> in the future.
> 
> Potential extensions of these drivers should be straightforward in the
> future.
> 
> Subsequent patches add DT nodes for the new drivers: disabled nodes
> in da850.dtsi and enabled in da850-lcdk.dts.
> 
> The last patch adds a workaround for current lack of support for drm
> bridges in tilcdc.
> 
> Tested on a da850-lcdk with a display connected over VGA and two
> additional patches for tilcdc (sent to linux-drm): ran simple modetest
> for supported resolutions, used X.org and fluxbox as graphical
> environment, played video with mplayer.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - used regular readl()/writel() instead of __raw_** versions
> - used resource_size() instead of calculating the size by hand
> - used ioremap instead of syscon in patch [2/5]
> - added the DT nodes in patches [3/5]-[5/5]
> 
> Bartosz Golaszewski (5):
>   ARM: memory: da8xx-ddrctl: new driver
>   ARM: bus: da8xx-mstpri: new driver
>   ARM: dts: da850: add the mstpri and ddrctl nodes
>   ARM: dts: da850-lcdk: enable mstpri and ddrctl nodes
>   ARM: dts: da850-lcdk: add tilcdc panel node
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/bus/ti,da850-mstpri.txt    |  20 ++
>  .../memory-controllers/ti-da8xx-ddrctl.txt         |  20 ++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-lcdk.dts                   |  71 ++++++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi                       |  11 +
>  drivers/bus/Kconfig                                |   9 +
>  drivers/bus/Makefile                               |   2 +
>  drivers/bus/da8xx-mstpri.c                         | 269 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/memory/Kconfig                             |   8 +
>  drivers/memory/Makefile                            |   1 +
>  drivers/memory/da8xx-ddrctl.c                      | 175 ++++++++++++++
>  10 files changed, 586 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/ti,da850-mstpri.txt
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/ti-da8xx-ddrctl.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/da8xx-mstpri.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/memory/da8xx-ddrctl.c
>