[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 2/8] ARM: sun4i: Add display blocks for the sun4i dtsi.

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 06:46:45PM +0200, Priit Laes wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 17:20 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Maxime Ripard
> > <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 07:43:59PM +0200, Priit Laes wrote:
> > > > Added basic display pipeline consisting of tcon, display backend
> > > > and
> > > > frontend blocks.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Priit Laes <plaes at plaes.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi | 104
> > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 104 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi
> > > > b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi
> > > > index ba20b48..70991c9 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi
> > > > @@ -779,6 +779,45 @@
> > > >                       #size-cells = <0>;
> > > >               };
> > > > 
> > > > +             tcon0: lcd-controller at 1c0c000 {
> > > > +                     compatible = "allwinner,sun5i-a13-tcon";
> > > 
> > > There's a few bits here and there that need to be setup differently
> > > in
> > > A10, so you cannot reuse that compatible (same thing for the
> > > other).
> > > 
> > > Also, I'd really like to have all the blocks listed here, and not
> > > only
> > > the first pipeline. Ideally, on the A10, the two pipelines should
> > > be
> > > enabled too.
> > 
> > The display pipeline driver has to be fixed before that can happen
> > though. And I haven't started to work on what I proposed yet. Though
> > if someone wants to take over I can forward any design plans I have.
> 
> Well, my plan was to get at least minimum bits mainlined and then build
> additional features on top.

I understand that, but now that we have the DT stability to maintain,
I want to make sure that everything is correctly represented from day
one, with code that works.

Otherwise, we might or might not be able to fix things properly later
down the road (or at the expense of ugly hacks).

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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