Re: [RFC 1/5] video: Add generic display panel core

From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Marcus Lorentzon <marcus.lorentzon@linaro.org>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Sebastien Guiriec <s-guiriec@ti.com>,
	Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	Steffen Trumtrar <str@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] video: Add generic display panel core
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:32:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120913193226.GT21896@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120913112954.GI6180@pengutronix.de>

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:29:54PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > You have seen my of videomode helper proposal. One result there
> > > was that we want to have ranges for the margin/synclen fields.
> > > Does it make sense to base this new panel framework on a more
> > > sophisticated internal reprentation of the panel parameters?
> >
> > I think it does, yes. We need a common video mode structure, and the
> > panel framework should use it. I'll try to rebase my patches on top
> > of your proposal. Have you posted the latest version ?
>
> V2 is the newest version. I'd like to implement ranges for the display
> timings which then makes for a new common video mode structure, which
> then could be used by drm and fbdev, probably with helper functions to
> convert from common videomode to drm/fbdev specific variants.

Steffen has a reworked series with the latest changes and will post them
soon.

rsc
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