Re: [PATCH v4 00/34] drm/exynos: Refactor parts of the exynos driver

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2014-02-28 2:09 GMT+09:00 Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

 2014년 2월 27일 목요일, Tomasz Figa<t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx>님이 작성한 메시지:

> Hi Inki,
>
> On 27.02.2014 05:43, Inki Dae wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tomasz,
>>
>>
>> 2014-02-08 11:48 GMT+09:00 Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> On 06.02.2014 20:54, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This patchset refactors parts of the exynos driver to move it closer
>>>>> to a
>>>>> proper
>>>>> drm driver (rather than just implementing a drm layer on top of the
>>>>> hardware
>>>>> drivers). The hope is to get to a point where the dp/hdmi drivers can
>>>>> implement
>>>>> drm_connector/drm_encoder directly, and fimd/mixer can directly
>>>>> implement
>>>>> drm_crtc.
>>>>>
>>>>> The notable changes in this set:
>>>>>           - drm_encoder funcs no longer route through the crtc
>>>>>           - DP driver has been moved from video into the drm driver
>>>>>           - fimd no longer implements encoder callbacks
>>>>>           - exynos_drm_hdmi is removed in favor of generic
>>>>> manager/display
>>>>>             handling
>>>>>
>>>>> At a glance, differences between v1 and v2:
>>>>>           - Passing manager/display in callbacks instead of ctx
>>>>>           - Tacked on some dpms patches on the end to handle
>>>>> suspend/resume
>>>>>             through the dpms path
>>>>>
>>>>> At a glance, differences between v2 and v3:
>>>>>           - Fixed vidi issues
>>>>>           - Moved exynos_drm_hdmi.c removal to the right place
>>>>>           - Added the exynos_drm_connector removal patches on the end
>>>>>
>>>>> At a glance, differences between v3 and v4:
>>>>>           - Rebased on top of exynos-drm-next
>>>>>           - Addressed review comments, no major functional changes
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Even if there is room for even more cleanups and refactorings on top
>>>> of this, it's good enough as a base and keeping it out of tree is
>>>> hurting productivity and usefulness for everybody. Let's get this
>>>> merged for 3.15 so that we can make progress with the rest of the
>>>> platform!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I wouldn't be overly excited about merging this series yet...
>>>
>>> If I have applied it correctly (and I believe so, as reading the code
>>> tells
>>> me the same), it introduces a regression due to removal of support of
>>> standard parallel displays from FIMD driver.
>>>
>>> I had mentioned this in my review comments for previous version, but
>>> apparently I got ignored. Please fix this.
>>>
>>
>> Right, and also some my comments. Sean should have commented his
>> opinions even if our comments aren't  reasonable to him.
>>
>> I sent a email about the progress of this refactoring patch series to
>> Sean and Olof personally because there was no any follow-up action for
>> about two months since v3 had been posted, and I found out that Sean
>> was busy with other works.
>>
>> And there are no any his comments until now so I'd like to believe
>> Sean would still be busy. So I already started to clean up and enhance
>> Exynos drm framework using the component framework for super device
>> posted by Russell like below,
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a41e6070dd7ef539d0f3b1652b4839d04378e11
>>
>> Last month, Russell had posted this framework, and it has been merged
>> to mainline. This provides a generic way to gather up the individual
>> sub devices together using super node?? (not sure if it's a proper
>> expression) of device tree.
>> With this, we could remove existing exynos_drm_core.c and I guess we
>> could also resolve your concern about dt broken this time.
>>
>> The patch series I'm preparing will go to on top of Sean's refactoring
>> patch series.
>
>
> Andrzej Hajda from our team is already working on addressing remaining
> issues with Sean's series, including fixing removed parallel display
> support. Earlier this month he sent a series restoring support for DSI
> panels: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.


 Already merged to internal kernel for test.

>
> linux.kernel.samsung-soc/27044 . Now he's also trying to make the design
> more modular. He will give you more information on Monday, as he's on
> holiday for next two days.
>
> Also Tomasz Stanislawski will have some patches to enable HDMI support
> using Exynos DRM on Exynos 4 SoCs on top of this series, along with
> reworking Sean's and Daniel's patch for HDMI driver's DT bindings as he
> mentioned in reply to other message of this thread.
>

 Ok, I'll wait for above patch sets. I have already implemented the component
 patch series for supporting super device so I planned to post it at end of
 this week. Will rebase it on top of above patch sets if posted.

 Thanks,
 Inki Dae


>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
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