On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, den 30.09.2015, 12:13 -0500 schrieb Rob Herring: >>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > Note how the display-subsystem node overlaps the larb node. Is that >>> > acceptable? >>> >>> Given what the graph looks like, perhaps. However, do you really need >>> a container node? It only serves to provide a list of nodes (e.g. all >>> the children) to include as components. There are other ways to >>> determine this list. You could find all nodes just searching >>> compatible strings for each component. You just need to bind the drm >>> driver to some other DT node. Is there no node you can pick as the >>> master component? >> >> There is the mmsys clock-controller node at the top of the MMSYS address >> space (0x14000000-0x14ffffff): >> >> mmsys: clock-controller@14000000 { >> compatible = "mediatek,mt8173-mmsys", "syscon"; >> reg = <0 0x14000000 0 0x1000>; >> #clock-cells = <1>; >> }; >> >> Its register space also contains the MMSYS_CONFIG region that controls >> the multiplexers between the display function blocks, so that would be a >> good candidate. >> No driver binds to this node yet, the clocks are registered with >> CLK_OF_DECLARE. >> >> I'll try to bind to this node and have the driver find sibling nodes >> using their compatible strings. > > That doesn't seem like a good choice since there are other functions > in the block. I was thinking one of the display related blocks like > whatever block provides the main crtc functions. The two "OVL" nodes correspond to the "crtc" functions of the two display pipes in this SoC, we would setup the display-subsystem node like this: display-subsystem { compatible = "mediatek,display-subsystem"; ports = <&ovl0>, <&ovl1>; }; And, any node that needs to poke around in the mmsys_config area, like an ovl, could access it using a phandle <&mmsys> to the common "mediatek,mt8173-mmsys" device, like this: ovl0: ovl@1400c000 { compatible = "mediatek,mt8173-ovl"; reg = <0 0x1400c000 0 0x1000>; interrupts = <GIC_SPI 180 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>; clocks = <&mmsys CLK_MM_DISP_OVL0>; iommus = <&iommu M4U_LARB0_ID M4U_PORT_DISP_OVL0>; mediatek,mmsys = <&mmsys>; status = "disabled"; }; One idea to reduce the size of the of_graph would be to just model the entrance/exit points from the MM subsystem in dt. So, instead of: ovl0 -> color0 -> aal -> od -> ufoe -> dsi0 -> dsi-edp-bridge ovl1 -> color1 -> gamma0 -> dpi0 -> hdmi We can do something like this: ovl0 -> dsi0 -> dsi-edp-bridge ovl1 -> dpi0 -> hdmi But ... this might be too limiting for some applications. So, I think we should just live with the big graph. I would, however, recommend that you move the graph to its own mt8173-display-graph.dtsi file which would be #included into a board specific .dts file. If you let the board .dts include the graph, then we can possibly shrink the resulting board specific device tree - At first we would make the full graph in one .dtsi as above "mt8173-display-graph.dtsi". This is the full reference graph that will always work. Then, if a particular board used a fixed configuration, the system integrator could create a smaller graph with just the graph nodes that they care about. For example, if mt8173-evb only supports a single HDMI output, then perhaps you would just set up the endpoints for this single fixed function display pipe in mt8173-evb-display-graph.dtsi: &ovl1 { status = "okay"; port { ovl1_to_color1: endpoint@0 { remote-endpoint = <&color1_from_ovl1>; }; }; }; &color1 { status = "okay"; port@0 { color1_from_ovl1: endpoint@1 { remote-endpoint = <&ovl1_to_color1>; }; }; port@1 { color1_to_gamma: endpoint@0 { remote-endpoint = <&gamma_from_color1>; }; }; }; &gamma { status = "okay"; port@0 { gamma_from_color1: endpoint { remote-endpoint = <&color1_to_gamma>; }; }; port@1 { gamma_to_dpi0: endpoint@3 { remote-endpoint = <&dpi0_from_gamma>; }; }; }; &dpi0 { status = "okay"; port@0 { dpi0_from_gamma: endpoint@2 { remote-endpoint = <&gamma_to_dpi0>; }; }; port@1 { dpi0_to_hdmi: endpoint { remote-endpoint = <&hdmi_from_dpi0>; }; }; }; Notice that this also only enables the nodes that we care about (all of the other nodes would be disabled by default). I this would allow full flexibility but also drastically cut down on the resulting .dts size. The individual component drivers would then march down their graphs ensuring that all of the corresponding components have been bound, and then themselves appropriately based on their set of endpoints that are available. What do you think? -Dan > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- 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