[PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: display: imx: Describe drm binding for fsl,imx-lcdc

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Fri Dec 16 03:41:19 PST 2022


On 16/12/2022 12:38, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:41:30AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 12:59, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> Modify the existing (fb-like) binding to support the drm-like binding in
>>> parallel.
>>
>> Aren't you now adding two compatibles to the same hardware, just for two
>> Linux drivers? One hardware should have one compatible, regardless of
>> Linux display implementation.
> 
> The (up to now unopposed) idea was to use the opportunity to pick a
> better name for the compatible. The hardware component is called LCDC
> and I guess fsl,imx21-fb was only picked because the linux driver is
> called imxfb. Unless I understood Rob wrong, he insisted to describe
> both variants in a single binding document only.

OK, I'll leave it then to Rob.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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