On 06/02/2016 07:25 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Hello Krzysztof, > > On 06/02/2016 12:31 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >> On 06/02/2016 05:20 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >>> Hello Krzysztof, >>> >>> On 05/30/2016 03:28 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >>>> On 05/24/2016 03:31 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote: >>>>> Once MFC driver has been converted to generic reserved memory bindings, >>>>> there is no need for custom memory reservation code. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> --- >>>>> arch/arm/mach-exynos/Makefile | 2 - >>>>> arch/arm/mach-exynos/exynos.c | 19 -------- >>>>> arch/arm/mach-exynos/mfc.h | 16 ------- >>>>> arch/arm/mach-exynos/s5p-dev-mfc.c | 93 -------------------------------------- >>>>> 4 files changed, 130 deletions(-) >>>>> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-exynos/mfc.h >>>>> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-exynos/s5p-dev-mfc.c >>>> >>>> Thanks, applied. >>>> >>> >>> This patch can't be applied before patches 2/5 and 3/5, or the custom >>> memory regions reservation will break with the current s5p-mfc driver. >> >> Yes, I know. As I understood from talk with Marek, the driver is broken >> now so continuous work was not chosen. If it is not correct and full > > It's true that the driven is currently broken in mainline and is not really > stable, I posted fixes for all the issues I found (mostly in module removal > and insert paths). > > But with just the following patch from Ayaka on top of mainline, I'm able to > have video decoding working: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/6/577 Which is still a "future" patch, not current state... > > Marek mentioned that bisectability is only partially broken because the old > binding will still work after this series if IOMMU is enabled (because the > properties are ignored in this case). But will break if IOMMU isn't enabled > which will be the case for some boards that fails to boot with IOMMU due the > bootloader leaving the FIMD enabled doing DMA operations automatically AFAIU. > > Now, I'm OK with not keeping backwards compatibility for the MFC dt bindings > since arguably the driver has been broken for a long time and nobody cared > and also I don't think anyone in practice boots a new kernel with an old DTB > for Exynos. > > But I don't think is correct to introduce a new issue as is the case if this > patch is applied before the previous patches in the series since this causes > the driver to probe to fail and the following warn on boot (while it used to > at least probe correctly in mainline): Okay but the patches will go through separate tree. This is not a problem, as I said, I just need a stable tag from media tree with first four patches (Mauro?). Best regards, Krzysztof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
