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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: display: amlogic, meson-vpu: exclusively use amlogic,canvas
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On 11/03/2019 11:51, Maxime Jourdan wrote:
> When the DRM driver for the meson platform was created, the bindings
> required that the DMC register region was provided.
>
> Through those DMC registers, the display driver could configure an IP
> called "canvas", a video lookup table used by the display IP.
>
> It was later discovered that "canvas" is actually an IP shared by other
> components than display: video decoder, 2D engine.. and that it wasn't
> possible to keep the canvas code in DRM.
>
> Over the past few months, incremental efforts have been deployed to
> create a standalone meson-canvas driver [1], and the DRM driver was
> patched to optionally use it if present [2].
>
> This is the final step of those efforts where we simply remove any
> control over DMC that the meson DRM driver has.
>
> Please note that this breaks compatibility with older DTs that only
> provide the DMC register range but not the amlogic,canvas node.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10573771/
> [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/52076/
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Jourdan <mjourdan@baylibre.com>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/display/amlogic,meson-vpu.txt | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/amlogic,meson-vpu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/amlogic,meson-vpu.txt
> index c65fd7a7467c..419444e2b4d3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/amlogic,meson-vpu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/amlogic,meson-vpu.txt
> @@ -60,15 +60,14 @@ Required properties:
> - reg: base address and size of he following memory-mapped regions :
> - vpu
> - hhi
> - - dmc
> - reg-names: should contain the names of the previous memory regions
> - interrupts: should contain the VENC Vsync interrupt number
> +- amlogic,canvas: phandle to canvas provider node as described in the file
> + ../soc/amlogic/amlogic,canvas.txt
>
> Optional properties:
> - power-domains: Optional phandle to associated power domain as described in
> the file ../power/power_domain.txt
> -- amlogic,canvas: phandle to canvas provider node as described in the file
> - ../soc/amlogic/amlogic,canvas.txt
>
> Required nodes:
>
>


Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>

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