[PATCH v12 1/3] drm: rockchip: Add basic drm driver

[Mark yao]

On 2014年11月18日 22:24, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 02:21:30PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:32:34 +0100
>> Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:00:29PM +0800, Mark Yao wrote:
>>>> From: Mark yao <mark.yao at rock-chips.com>
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds the basic structure of a DRM Driver for Rockchip Socs.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Yao <mark.yao at rock-chips.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz at chromium.org>
>>>> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>> - use the component framework to defer main drm driver probe
>>>>    until all VOP devices have been probed.
>>>> - use dma-mapping API with ARM_DMA_USE_IOMMU, create dma mapping by
>>>>    master device and each vop device can shared the drm dma mapping.
>>>> - use drm_crtc_init_with_planes and drm_universal_plane_init.
>>>> - remove unnecessary middle layers.
>>>> - add cursor set, move funcs to rockchip drm crtc.
>>>> - use vop reset at first init
>>>> - reference framebuffer when used and unreference when swap out vop
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v3:
>>>> - change "crtc->fb" to "crtc->primary-fb"
>>>> Adviced by Daniel Vetter
>>>> - init cursor plane with universal api, remove unnecessary cursor set,move
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v4:
>>>> Adviced by David Herrmann
>>>> - remove drm_platform_*() usage, use register drm device directly.
>>> Minor fixup for that part below.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> +static int rockchip_drm_bind(struct device *dev)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	struct drm_device *drm;
>>>> +	int ret;
>>>> +
>>>> +	drm = drm_dev_alloc(&rockchip_drm_driver, dev);
>>>> +	if (!drm)
>>>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>>>> +
>>>> +	ret = drm_dev_set_unique(drm, "%s", dev_name(dev));
>>>> +	if (ret)
>>>> +		goto err_free;
>>> Please call rockchip_drm_load here directly and don't put it as the ->load
>>> function into the driver vtable. The point of the alloc/register split is
>>> that the driver can be completely set up _before_ we register anything.
>>> But for backwards compat and historical reasons ->load is called somewhere
>>> in the middle (so that you could access the minor nodes if needed, since
>>> some drivers do that).
>> I tried to do the same in the atmel-hlcdc DRM driver, but I need the
>> primary drm_minor to register the connectors (see this kernel
>> backtrace [1]), which means I either initialize the connector in the
>> wrong place (currently part of the drm load process), or I just can't
>> call atmel_hlcdc_dc_load before registering the drm device...
> Hm right, wonder who that works with rockchip tbh.
>
> We did split up the drm_connector setup into _init and register, so if you
> want to do this then you need to move the call to drm_connector_register
> below the call to drm_dev_register.
>
> We should probably have a drm_connectors_register_all helper which does
> this for all connectors on the connector list. And also grabs the
> appropriate lock.
>
> I guess it's somewhat obvious that no one yet actually tried this ;-)
> -Daniel
right, I re-test the driver with it, get the same problem with Boris.
I should move drm_connector_register below the drm_dev_register.