Hi all, Does version 6 fit to all your expectations ? If yes will you consider to merge it into drm-next ? If no, please tell me what need to be fixed. Regards, Benjamin 2014-07-04 15:54 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I have following Russel advice to rebase my patches on top of the new > component helpers API. > > A new branch "drm_kms_for_next-v6" is available here > git://git.linaro.org/people/benjamin.gaignard/kernel.git > > Regards, > Benjamin > > > 2014-07-04 10:39 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Rob, Russel, >> >> What I can do is to rebase my driver on driver-core-next branch from >> Greg tree (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git). >> >> Does that could help ? >> >> Regards, >> Benjamin >> >> >> 2014-07-03 23:59 GMT+02:00 Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux >>> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 05:31:21PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: >>>>> >From a brief look, it looks like my comments have been addressed, so I >>>>> think this is starting to shape up.. >>>>> >>>>> Laurent/Thierry/Russell, I don't suppose any of you are likely to have >>>>> time before 3.17 merge window to give sti one last once-over to see >>>>> what I missed ;-) >>>> >>>> As this appears to be using the component helpers, it would be good for >>>> the author to be pre-warned about the change to the API. I'm going to >>>> be doing this as a two step thing. >>>> >>>> The first stage of it has just been taken by Greg this evening. This >>>> retires old behaviour that was needed for the initial versions of imx-drm, >>>> and fixes a bug. More importantly, it introduces a new interface where >>>> you build the list of expected components before calling >>>> component_master_add(), passing it into that function. >>>> >>>> It is slightly less flexible from the driver writer's view point, but >>>> allows us to do more in the component helper, and support some features >>>> that others would like to see (such as being able to add additional >>>> optional components after the initial bind (that's not much interest >>>> to DRM though.) >>>> >>>> This should make the v3.17 merge window. I'm hoping that by forewarning >>>> about the change, that people can be aware of it and have patches >>>> prepared for v3.18 (or maybe even v3.17) to convert over to it, so we >>>> can get rid of the older interface before we get too many users of it. >>>> >>>> I've just peeked at the binding document in the first patch. I notice >>>> that it isn't making use of the of_graph stuff, which is a bit of a >>>> shame because I've sent a RFC patch adding drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c >>>> to provide a helper which encoders can use to get the CRTC mask from >>>> an of_graph representation. >>> >>> which reminds me, I need to have a look at the drm_of stuff.. >>> >>>> I'm using this not only for imx-drm, but also for tda998x - and that's >>>> where the problems are likely to start if we end up with different >>>> DRM implementations doing different solutions to the connectivity >>>> problem. >>> >>> If it simplifies merge-order stuff, I'd be ok with a follow-up patch >>> that converts over (assuming it shouldn't have an impact on the DT >>> bindings, which I'm only assuming it should not..) >>> >>> Probably it would be a good idea if Benjamin at least had a patch >>> ready to go to convert over which could be merged right after your >>> stuff hits drm-next. >>> >>> BR, >>> -R >>> >>>> -- >>>> FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly >>>> improving, and getting towards what was expected from it. >> >> >> >> -- >> Benjamin Gaignard >> >> Graphic Working Group >> >> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs >> >> Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog > > > > -- > Benjamin Gaignard > > Graphic Working Group > > Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs > > Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- Benjamin Gaignard Graphic Working Group Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
