From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@collabora.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/4] Documentation/devicetree/bindings: b850v3_lvds_dp
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:04:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6276161.johxDync2u@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74f0-58704480-5-27259840@173563636>
Hi Peter,
On Saturday 07 Jan 2017 01:29:52 Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> On 04 January, 2017 21:39 CET, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> >> On 03 January, 2017 23:51 CET, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 09:24:29PM +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> >>>> Devicetree bindings documentation for the GE B850v3 LVDS/DP++
> >>>> display bridge.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.co.uk>
> >>>> Cc: Martin Donnelly <martin.donnelly@ge.com>
> >>>> Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>
> >>>> Cc: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
> >>>> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> >>>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> >>>> Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@collabora.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> There was an Acked-by from Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> for V6, but
> >>>> I changed the bindings to use i2c_new_secondary_device() so I
> >>>> removed it from the commit message.
> >>>>
> >>>> .../devicetree/bindings/ge/b850v3-lvds-dp.txt | 39 ++++++++++++++
> >>> Generally, bindings are not organized by vendor. Put in
> >>> bindings/display/bridge/... instead.
> >>
> >> Will change that.
> >>
> >>>> 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> >>>> create mode 100644
> >>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ge/b850v3-lvds-dp.txt
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ge/b850v3-lvds-dp.txt
> >>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ge/b850v3-lvds-dp.txt new file
> >>>> mode 100644
> >>>> index 0000000..1bc6ebf
> >>>> --- /dev/null
> >>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ge/b850v3-lvds-dp.txt
> >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
> >>>> +Driver for GE B850v3 LVDS/DP++ display bridge
> >>>> +
> >>>> +Required properties:
> >>>> + - compatible : should be "ge,b850v3-lvds-dp".
> >>>
> >>> Isn't '-lvds-dp' redundant? The part# should be enough.
> >>
> >> b850v3 is the name of the product, this is why the proposed name. What
> >> about, b850v3-dp2 dp2 indicating the second DP output?
> >
> > Humm, b850v3 is the board name? This node should be the name of the bridge
> > chip.
>
> From the cover letter:
>
> -- // --
> There are two physical bridges on the video signal pipeline: a STDP4028(LVDS
> to DP) and a STDP2690(DP to DP++). The hardware and firmware made it
> complicated for this binding to comprise two device tree nodes, as the
> design goal is to configure both bridges based on the LVDS signal, which
> leave the driver powerless to control the video processing pipeline. The
> two bridges behaves as a single bridge, and the driver is only needed for
> telling the host about EDID / HPD, and for giving the host powers to ack
> interrupts. The video signal pipeline is as follows:
>
> Host -> LVDS|--(STDP4028)--|DP -> DP|--(STDP2690)--|DP++ -> Video output
> -- // --
You forgot to prefix your patch series with [HACK] ;-)
How about fixing the issues that make the two DT nodes solution difficult ?
What are they ?
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-10 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-01 20:24 [PATCH V7 0/4] Add driver for GE B850v3 LVDS/DP++ Bridge Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-01 20:24 ` [PATCH V7 1/4] Documentation/devicetree/bindings: b850v3_lvds_dp Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-03 22:51 ` Rob Herring
2017-01-03 23:34 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-04 20:39 ` Rob Herring
2017-01-07 1:29 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-10 21:04 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2017-01-16 8:37 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-18 21:10 ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-01-19 8:12 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-19 8:17 ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-01-19 9:25 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-19 11:49 ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-01-10 21:06 ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-01-01 20:24 ` [PATCH V7 2/4] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for GE B850v3 LVDS/DP++ Bridge Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-01 20:24 ` [PATCH V7 3/4] drm/bridge: Add driver " Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-02 11:26 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-05 7:48 ` Archit Taneja
2017-01-28 14:16 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-01-30 17:05 ` Jani Nikula
2017-02-01 9:44 ` Archit Taneja
2017-02-01 10:58 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-02-01 11:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-02-01 12:21 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-02-02 9:56 ` Archit Taneja
2017-02-02 1:46 ` Emil Velikov
2017-02-02 11:53 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-02-02 12:37 ` Emil Velikov
2017-02-03 8:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-02-03 12:25 ` Emil Velikov
2017-02-06 8:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-01-01 20:24 ` [PATCH V7 4/4] dts/imx6q-b850v3: Use " Peter Senna Tschudin
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