[PATCH v7 01/10] drm: bridge: Add Samsung DSIM bridge driver

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Mon Oct 17 00:19:30 PDT 2022


On 10/17/22 04:49, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 3:16 AM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/5/22 17:13, 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 by maintaining exynos platform glue code in exynos_drm_dsi.c driver
>>> and common bridge driver code in samsung-dsim.c providing that the new
>>> platform-specific glue should be supported in the bridge driver, unlike
>>> exynos platform drm drivers.
>>>
>>> - Add samsung_dsim_plat_data for keeping platform-specific attributes like
>>>     host_ops, irq_ops, and hw_type.
>>>
>>> - Initialize the plat_data hooks for exynos platform in exynos_drm_dsi.c.
>>>
>>> - samsung_dsim_probe is the common probe call across exynos_drm_dsi.c and
>>>     samsung-dsim.c.
>>>
>>> - plat_data hooks like host_ops and irq_ops are invoked during the
>>>     respective bridge call chains.
>>
>> Maybe the Subject should say "Split ... driver" or "Move ... driver" ,
>> since it is not adding a new driver here ?
> 
> Though it is not added a completely new driver, it is adding more
> infrastructure platform code to be compatible with both Exynos and
> i.MX8M. This is the prime reason for adding that commit head and
> explaining the same in the commit body.

Diffstat looks like this:

  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.c   | 1703 ++++++++++++++++++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/Kconfig          |    1 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_dsi.c | 1766 ++---------------------
  include/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.h       |  113 ++
  7 files changed, 1952 insertions(+), 1653 deletions(-)

Looks to me like most of the code is just moved from existing driver in 
this patch.



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