[PATCH 01/11] drm: bridge: Add Samsung DSIM bridge driver

[Marek Szyprowski]

Hi Jagan,

On 04.05.2022 11:16, Jagan Teki wrote:
> Hi Marek,
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 3:15 PM Marek Szyprowski
> <m.szyprowski at samsung.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jagan,
>>
>> On 08.04.2022 18:20, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>> Samsung MIPI DSIM controller is common DSI IP that can be used in various
>>> SoCs like Exynos, i.MX8M Mini/Nano.
>>>
>>> In order to access this DSI controller between various platform SoCs, the
>>> ideal way to incorporate this in the drm stack is via the drm bridge driver.
>>>
>>> This patch is trying to differentiate platform-specific and bridge driver
>>> code and keep maintaining the exynos_drm_dsi.c code as platform-specific
>>> glue code and samsung-dsim.c as a common bridge driver code.
>>>
>>> - Exynos specific glue code is exynos specific te_irq, host_attach, and
>>>     detach code along with conventional component_ops.
>>>
>>> - Samsung DSIM is a bridge driver which is common across all platforms and
>>>     the respective platform-specific glue will initialize at the end of the
>>>     probe. The platform-specific operations and other glue calls will invoke
>>>     on associate code areas.
>>>
>>> Updated MAINTAINERS file for this bridge with exynos drm maintainers along
>>> with Andrzej as he is the original author.
>>>
>>> Tomasz Figa has been not included in MAINTAINERS as he is not available via
>>> samsung.com.
>>>
>>> v1:
>>> * Don't maintain component_ops in bridge driver
>>> * Don't maintain platform glue code in bridge driver
>>> * Add platform-specific glue code and make a common bridge
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
>> Well, it took me a while to make this working on Exynos. I'm not really
>> happy of the design, although I didn't spent much time thinking how to
>> improve it and clarify some ambiguities. It doesn't even look that one
>> has compiled the Exynos code after this conversion.
> Well, I was successfully built the each commit on exynos and non-exynos
>
>> The following changes are needed to get it to the same working state as
>> before this patch (the next patches however break it even further):
>>
>> commit e358ee6239305744062713c5aa2e8d44f740b81a (HEAD)
>> Author: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
>> Date:   Tue Apr 12 11:30:26 2022 +0200
>>
>>       drm: exynos: dsi: fixup driver after conversion
> What exactly it is fixing the existing conversion, could you point that out?

See the diff. Broken build (missing gpio_consumer.h in exynos-dsi), 
mixed structures put into drvdata (samsung_dsim vs. exynos_dsi) hidden 
by the casting to void * in the samsung_dsim_host_ops.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland