Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] drm/tiny: Add driver for Solomon SSD1307 OLED displays

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Andy,

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:48 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 04:10:49PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> > On 2/8/22 15:19, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 2:43 PM Javier Martinez Canillas
> > > <javierm@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >   - Kernel size increased by 349 KiB,
> > >   - The "Memory:" line reports 412 KiB less memory,
> > >   - On top of that, "free" shows ca. 92 KiB more memory in use after
> > >     bootup.
>
> The memory consumption should really be taken seriously, because these kind of
> displays are for embedded platforms with limited amount of resources.

Thanks for your concern!

Looking at the options that are auto-enabled, a few stand out that
look like they're not needed on systems witch such small displays,
or on legacy systems predating DDC:

    menuconfig DRM
            tristate "Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and
higher DRI support)"
            depends on (AGP || AGP=n) && !EMULATED_CMPXCHG && HAS_DMA
            select DRM_NOMODESET
            select DRM_PANEL_ORIENTATION_QUIRKS
            select HDMI

Not everyone pays HDMI royalties ;-)

            select FB_CMDLINE
            select I2C
            select I2C_ALGOBIT

I do need I2C, as it's the transport for my SSD1306 display, but not
everyone needs it.

            select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
            select SYNC_FILE
    # gallium uses SYS_kcmp for os_same_file_description() to de-duplicate
    # device and dmabuf fd. Let's make sure that is available for our userspace.
            select KCMP

And:

    config DRM_BRIDGE
            def_bool y
            depends on DRM
            help
              Bridge registration and lookup framework.

    config DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE
            def_bool y


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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