On 03/03/14 10:04, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > Hi Rob, Pawel, Mark, Ian, Kumar, Ping, Any hints on how to continue with this? > On 28/02/14 18:56, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 06:48:35PM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >>> This is totally unclear to me. How does it become a public standard? >>> What's the forum for this? >> >> Me too. That's where I'd hope someone on devicetree-discuss will be >> able to help us work out what's the right approach here. :) > > The story briefly so far: I've implemented DT support for OMAP display, > and created bindings for various (non-OMAP) display components, > including generic connector bindings for DVI, HDMI and analog-tv. > > Russell's point was that these connector bindings are very generic, i.e. > they are not for any particular chip from a particular vendor, but for > any connector for DVI, HDMI or analog-tv. And he's worried that maybe we > shouldn't define such generic bindings without consulting the whole > device-tree community (i.e including non-linux users). > > So the question is, is there such a community and a forum to bring up > this kind of things? If yes, should we bring this up there? If yes, what > kind of things in general should be brought into the attention of > non-linux users? > > What I wonder here is that while a thing like DVI connector is, of > course, more generic than, say, "ti,tfp410" encoder chip, but isn't the > case still the same: we're defining global bindings for hardware that > should work for everyone, not only Linux users? > > Tomi > >
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