[GIT PULL 1/3]: DaVinci SoC updates for v4.12
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Thu Mar 30 08:06:59 PDT 2017
On Thursday, March 23, 2017 4:21:04 PM CEST Sekhar Nori wrote:
> v4.12 SoC updates for DaVinci include necessary pdata-quirks
> to make video capture and display work on da850.
>
> VPIF driver which supports video capture and display on
> da850 is a legacy driver. It does not have DT equavalents
> for all things that are used on platform data.
>
> Attempts were made to pass data via DT[1], but linux-media
> does not yet have a good way of describing subdevices in
> device tree. This is work in progress. As soon as bindings
> are defined and implementation is available, we can shift
> to using that. For now we are stuck with using pdata.
>
> The pull request also has some clean-up for PM, and a fix
> for pdata quirks mechanism.
>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=devicetree&m=147982998517384
>
Pulled into next/soc, thanks!
Arnd
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