Re: [PATCH v2 16/27] drm/tegra: Add Tegra114 display controller support

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On 10/12/2013 05:32 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:14:27PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 10/07/2013 02:34 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>> From: Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> The Tegra114 display controller is backwards-compatible with
>>> previous generations of the Tegra SoC. No code changes are
>>> required.
>> 
>> If the HW is backwards-compatible, then there's no need to add
>> extra compatible values to the driver; just write the following
>> in the DT, and it'll just work:
>> 
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra114-dc", "nvidia,tegra30-dc";
> 
> One reason why I thought it might be useful to still include this,
> even though unnecessary, was to match it to the host1x_drm_subdevs
> table. We can probably remove the entry from there as well,
> though.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the same holds for Tegra30, which is also 
> backwards compatible with Tegra20 but the DTS doesn't contain the 
> Tegra20 compatible. So to keep ABI compatibility we'll need to keep
> the nvidia,tegra30-dc in the driver's match tables, but I could
> still update the DTS to include the nvidia,tegra20-dc for
> correctness.
> 
> Does that make sense?

Yes, fixing the Tegra30 .dtsi file sounds like a good idea.
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