Re: [PATCH v2 22/22] drm: mxsfb: Support the alpha plane

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On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 23:43, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Emil,
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > HI Laurent,
> >
> > From a quick glance the series looks really good and neat.
>
> Thank you :-)
>
> > Then again, I don't know much about the hardware to provide meaningful
> > review.
> >
> > A couple of small ideas below.
> >
> > On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 04:11, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >
> > > +#define LCDC_AS_BUF                    0x220
> > > +#define LCDC_AS_NEXT_BUF               0x230
> >
> > s/LCDC_AS_BUF/LCDC_AS_CUR_BUF/ - to stay consistent with the primary
> > plane name scheme.
>
> The register names come directly from the datasheet (and yes, the
> datasheet uses CUR_BUF and NEXT_BUF for the primary plane, and BUF and
> NEXT_BUF for the overlay plane :-S). I'd thus rather keep them aligned
> with the documentation.
>
> > Would it make sense to store the above registers in mxsfb_devdata,
> > just like we do for the primary planes?
>
> The reason the register addresses are stored in mxsfb_devdata for the
> primary plane is because they differ between hardware revisions (don't
> they teach hardware engineers in school these days *not* to move
> registers around ? :-)). The overlay plane is only supported in the
> latest versions of the IP core, and are always located at the same
> address as far as I can tell. I don't think we need an extra level of
> indirection.
>
Right, makes sense. Thanks for the information.

-Emil
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