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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
	Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@jmondi.org>,
	Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] drm: rcar-du: Skip LVDS1 output on Gen3 when using dual-link LVDS mode
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 11:29:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606092959.GB17442@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190606075750.GE4931@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>

Hi Laurent.

> > > Gen3 is the newest generation :-) We thus use >= through the DU and LVDS
> > > drivers to prepare for support of Gen4, just in case.
> >
> > OK, but I guess we agree that the comment needs a small update them.
> > 
> > Actually I implicitly reads that it is only from Gen3 onwards that the
> > LVDS1 encoder can be used as a companion.
> > My initial understanding reading the comment was that this implmented a
> > workaround for Gen3 - but it is a workarounf for missing features in
> > older than Gen3.
> 
> I wouldn't say workaround, it just makes sure that we don't try to
> support LVDS dual-mode on older SoCs as the feature was added in Gen3
> hardware.
> 
> > So, assuming this is correct, when trying to specify a companion on
> > older then Gen3 should result in some kind of error/warning?
> > (Maybe it does).
> 
> The property is ignored in that case. I could add an error message, but
> I'm not sure I should, as we don't usually check that DT nodes don't
> contain any other property than the ones specified in the DT bindings
> (an automatic DT runtime validator based on the YAML bindings could be
> interesting ;-)).
Again, thanks for taking your time.
This clarifies it nicely.

	Sam

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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
	Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@jmondi.org>,
	Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] drm: rcar-du: Skip LVDS1 output on Gen3 when using dual-link LVDS mode
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 11:29:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606092959.GB17442@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190606075750.GE4931@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>

Hi Laurent.

> > > Gen3 is the newest generation :-) We thus use >= through the DU and LVDS
> > > drivers to prepare for support of Gen4, just in case.
> >
> > OK, but I guess we agree that the comment needs a small update them.
> > 
> > Actually I implicitly reads that it is only from Gen3 onwards that the
> > LVDS1 encoder can be used as a companion.
> > My initial understanding reading the comment was that this implmented a
> > workaround for Gen3 - but it is a workarounf for missing features in
> > older than Gen3.
> 
> I wouldn't say workaround, it just makes sure that we don't try to
> support LVDS dual-mode on older SoCs as the feature was added in Gen3
> hardware.
> 
> > So, assuming this is correct, when trying to specify a companion on
> > older then Gen3 should result in some kind of error/warning?
> > (Maybe it does).
> 
> The property is ignored in that case. I could add an error message, but
> I'm not sure I should, as we don't usually check that DT nodes don't
> contain any other property than the ones specified in the DT bindings
> (an automatic DT runtime validator based on the YAML bindings could be
> interesting ;-)).
Again, thanks for taking your time.
This clarifies it nicely.

	Sam
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Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-28 14:12 [PATCH v3 00/10] R-Car DU: LVDS dual-link mode support Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] drm: bridge: Add dual_link field to the drm_bridge_timings structure Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-07-30 12:12   ` Neil Armstrong
2019-07-30 12:12     ` Neil Armstrong
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] dt-bindings: display: bridge: thc63lvd1024: Document dual-link operation Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-07 22:15   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:15     ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:30     ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-07 22:30       ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-07 22:36       ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:36         ` Kieran Bingham
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] drm: bridge: thc63: Report input bus mode through bridge timings Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-07 22:51   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:51     ` Kieran Bingham
2019-07-30 12:13   ` Neil Armstrong
2019-07-30 12:13     ` Neil Armstrong
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] dt-bindings: display: renesas: lvds: Add renesas, companion property Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` [PATCH v3 04/10] dt-bindings: display: renesas: lvds: Add renesas,companion property Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 16:37   ` [PATCH v3 04/10] dt-bindings: display: renesas: lvds: Add renesas, companion property Sam Ravnborg
2019-05-28 16:37     ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-05-28 16:49     ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 16:49       ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 16:59       ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-05-28 16:59         ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-06-06  7:54         ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-06  7:54           ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-06  9:27           ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-06-06  9:27             ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-06-07 22:33   ` [PATCH v3 04/10] dt-bindings: display: renesas: lvds: Add renesas,companion property Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:33     ` Kieran Bingham
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] drm: rcar-du: lvds: Remove LVDS double-enable checks Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-07 22:09   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:09     ` Kieran Bingham
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] drm: rcar-du: lvds: Add support for dual-link mode Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-07 23:11   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 23:11     ` Kieran Bingham
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] drm: rcar-du: Skip LVDS1 output on Gen3 when using dual-link LVDS mode Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 16:42   ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-05-28 16:42     ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-05-28 16:50     ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 16:50       ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 17:02       ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-05-28 17:02         ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-06-06  7:57         ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-06  7:57           ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-06  9:29           ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2019-06-06  9:29             ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-06-07 23:19   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 23:19     ` Kieran Bingham
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a7799[05]: Point LVDS0 to its companion LVDS1 Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-03 11:40   ` Simon Horman
2019-06-03 11:40     ` Simon Horman
2019-06-06  7:59     ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-06  7:59       ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-06  8:51       ` Simon Horman
2019-06-06  8:51         ` Simon Horman
2019-06-12 10:21         ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-12 10:21           ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-12 11:52           ` Simon Horman
2019-06-12 11:52             ` Simon Horman
2019-06-07 23:15   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 23:15     ` Kieran Bingham
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] [HACK] arm64: dts: renesas: draak: Enable LVDS dual-link operation Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] [HACK] arm64: dts: renesas: ebisu: " Laurent Pinchart
2019-05-28 14:12   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-07-22 11:27   ` Fabrizio Castro
2019-07-22 11:27     ` Fabrizio Castro
2019-07-23 10:30     ` Jacopo Mondi
2019-07-23 10:30       ` Jacopo Mondi
2019-07-23 12:16       ` Fabrizio Castro
2019-07-23 12:16         ` Fabrizio Castro
2019-05-28 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] R-Car DU: LVDS dual-link mode support Sam Ravnborg
2019-05-28 16:46   ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-06-07 22:16 ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:16   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-06-07 22:21   ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-07 22:21     ` Laurent Pinchart

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