[RFC][PATCH] Revert "drm/panel-simple: drop use of data-mapping property"

Denys Drozdov denys.drozdov at toradex.com
Wed Feb 2 07:54:08 PST 2022


> On 2/1/22 1:07 PM, Christoph Niedermaier wrote:
>> Without the data-mapping devicetree property my display won't
>> work properly. It is flickering, because the bus flags won't
>> be assigned without a defined bus format by the imx parallel
>> display driver. There was a discussion about the removal [1]
>> and an agreement that a better solution is needed, but it is
>> missing so far.
> Obviously bus format in panel-dpi is broken, so this revert
> looks necessary. The current state of panel-dpi isn't consistent
> with changes introduced in commit 4a1d0dbc8332231d1d500d7a1d13c45457262a97
>> So what would be the better approach?
> Another approach is using panel instead of panel-dpi.
>> [1]https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/357659/?series=74705&rev=1
>>
>> This reverts commit d021d751c14752a0266865700f6f212fab40a18c.
> But, also you need to revert 99f155d0776fb8838e326efce056aa08e25433d0
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Niedermaier<cniedermaier at dh-electronics.com>
> Tested-by: Denys Drozdov<denys.drozdov at toradex.com>



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