[RFC] drm/imx: upstream direction for i.MX95 display support

[Liu Ying]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 03:33:18PM +0530, Piyush Patle wrote:

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> The current dc/ implementation is a multi-device component driver with one
> platform_driver per block bound via the component framework. The downstream
> i.MX95 driver is a single monolithic platform_driver mapping all blocks from
> one register base. Unifying appears to require reconciling two bind models,
> rather than only adding match_data.

I think that upstream i.MX95 display controller driver would also be based
on the component helper.  That's something for sure.

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> There is also anticipated divergence which is not yet upstream (i.MX8QXP
> prefetch/PRG, LTS and tiling modifiers, and the downstream i.MX95 blit
> engine), although mainline dc/ is KMS-only today.

Just want to point out that I sent out v5 patch set[2] to add i.MX8QXP
prefetch engine(DPRC + PRG) support for KMS.  That changes the driver's
mode setting code a lot.

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251027-imx8-dc-prefetch-v5-0-4ecb6c6d4941@nxp.com/

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> One question for Liu Ying is whether the separate-driver plus shared
> helper-library approach is still the preferred direction, and where the
> helper boundary would be drawn (which blocks/ops are shared versus
> implemented per driver).

Yes, separate DRM drivers + a helper library approach is still the direction
I want.  I think that the drivers and library would sit in the same
directory drivers/gpu/drm/imx/dc/.

The purpose to add a library is to share code to reduce overall code lines.
I'd assume that shared blocks or common part of slightly different blocks
should be covered by the library.

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> how the component and monolithic driver models
> would be reconciled given the differences described above.

Like I said above, I don't think upstream driver would be monolithic.

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Regards,
Liu Ying