Am Montag, 24. August 2015, 09:48:27 schrieb Rob Herring: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > > When we adopted the graph bindings for iMX DRM, I thought exactly at that > > time "it would be nice if this could become the standard for binding DRM > > components together" but I don't have the authority from either the DT > > perspective or the DRM perspective to mandate that. Neither does anyone > > else. That's the _real_ problem here. > > > > I've seen several DRM bindings go by which don't use the of-graph stuff, > > which means that they'll never be compatible with generic components > > which do use the of-graph stuff. > > It goes beyond bindings IMO. The use of the component framework or not > has been at the whim of driver writers as well. It is either used or > private APIs are created. I'm using components and my need for it > boils down to passing the struct drm_device pointer to the encoder. > Other components like panels and bridges have different ways to attach > to the DRM driver. but that is then simply implementation specific. Panels and bridges can very well be part of and created from an of_graph description without needing to be a (linux-)component - see patch 7. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
