[PATCH v3 00/12] drm/imx/ipuv3: switch LDB and parallel-display driver to use drm_bridge_connector

[Philipp Zabel]

Hi Dmitry,

On Sa, 2024-07-27 at 14:17 +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 03:04:40PM GMT, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > The IPUv3 DRM i.MX driver contains several codepaths for different
> > usescases: both LDB and paralllel-display drivers handle next-bridge,
> > panel and the legacy display-timings DT node on their own.
> > 
> > Drop unused ddc-i2c-bus and edid handling (none of the DT files merged
> > upstream ever used these features), switch to panel-bridge driver,
> > removing the need to handle drm_panel codepaths separately and finally
> > switch to drm_bridge_connector, removing requirement for the downstream
> > bridges to create drm_connector on their own.
> > 
> > This has been tested on the iMX53 with the DPI panel attached to LDB via
> > LVDS decoder, using all possible usecases (lvds-codec + panel, panel
> > linked directly to LDB node and the display-timings node).
> > 
> > To be able to test on the iMX53 QSRB with the HDMI cape apply [1], [2]
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240514030718.533169-1-victor.liu@nxp.com/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240602-imx-sii902x-defconfig-v1-1-71a6c382b422@linaro.org/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
> > ---
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Notice (soft) dependencies in the cover letter (Chris)
> > - Select DRM_BRIDGE instead of depending on it (Philipp)
> > - Dropped unused selection of DRM_PANEL (Philipp)
> > - Added missing include of <drm/bridge/imx.h> to parallel-display.c
> >   (Philipp)
> > - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240331-drm-imx-cleanup-v2-0-d81c1d1c1026@linaro.org
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Fixed drm_bridge_attach flags in imx/parallel-display driver.
> > - Moved the legacy bridge to drivers/gpu/drm/bridge
> > - Added missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the iMX legacy bridge
> > - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240311-drm-imx-cleanup-v1-0-e104f05caa51@linaro.org
> 
> Just a gracious ping, this has been without maintainer's review for
> nearly two months.

I don't have any active i.MX6 projects right now, which increases
latency. I'll get around to reviewing the remaining changes and testing
on i.MX6 this week or next.

> Should we change ipu-v3 to the 'S: Odd Fixes' state?

Odd is on point, but fixes-only doesn't really fit.

regards
Philipp