RE: [PATCH v2 2/2] drm/exynos: Add device tree based discovery support for G2D

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> From: linux-media-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-media-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sylwester Nawrocki
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:24 PM
> To: Inki Dae
> Cc: 'Sachin Kamat'; linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; dri-
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devicetree-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> k.debski@xxxxxxxxxxx; kgene.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx; patches@xxxxxxxxxx; 'Ajay
> Kumar'; kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx; sw0312.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> jy0922.shim@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] drm/exynos: Add device tree based discovery
> support for G2D
> 
> On 02/06/2013 09:51 AM, Inki Dae wrote:
> [...]
> > I think that it's better to go to gpu than media and we can divide
> Exynos
> > IPs into the bellow categories,
> >
> > Media : mfc
> > GPU : g2d, g3d, fimc, gsc
> 
> Heh, nice try! :) GPU and FIMC ? FIMC is a camera subsystem (hence 'C'
> in the acronym), so what it has really to do with GPU ? All right, this IP
> has really two functions: camera capture and video post-processing
> (colorspace conversion, scaling), but the main feature is camera capture
> (fimc-lite is a camera capture interface IP only).
> 
> Also, Exynos5 GScaler is used as a DMA engine for camera capture data
> pipelines, so it will be used by a camera capture driver as well. It
> really belongs to "Media" and "GPU", as this is a multifunctional
> device (similarly to FIMC).
> 
> So I propose following classification, which seems less inaccurate:
> 
> GPU:   g2d, g3d
> Media: mfc, fimc, fimc-lite, fimc-is, mipi-csis, gsc
> Video: fimd, hdmi, eDP, mipi-dsim
> 

Ok, it seems that your propose is better. :)

To Sachin,
Please add g2d document to .../bindings/gpu

To Rahul,
Could you please move .../drm/exynos/* to .../bindings/video? Probably you
need to rename the files there to exynos*.txt

If there are no other opinions, let's start  :)

Thanks,
Inki Dae

> I have already a DT bindings description prepared for fimc [1].
> (probably it needs to be rephrased a bit not to refer to the linux
> device model). I put it in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/soc,
> but likely there is no need for the 'soc' subdirectory...
> 
> > Video : fimd, hdmi, eDP, MIPI-DSI
> >
> > And I think that the device-tree describes hardware so possibly, all
> > documents in .../bindings/drm/exynos/* should be moved to proper place
> also.
> > Please give  me any opinions.
> 
> Yes, I agree. If possible, it would be nice to have some Linux API
> agnostic locations.
> 
> [1] goo.gl/eTGOl
> 
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> 
> Thanks,
> Sylwester
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