Hi Niklas, Thank you for the patch. On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 06:16:15PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > The Gen4 SoCs V3U, V4H and V4M have a similar video capture pipelines. > > The datasheets for the SoCs have small nuances around the Pre-Clip > registers ELPrC and EPPrC in three use-cases, interlaced images, > embedded data and RAW8 input. On V4H the values written to the registers > are based on odd numbers while on V4M they are even numbers, values are > based on the input image size. No board that uses these SoCs which also > have the external peripherals to test these nuances exists. Most likely > this is an issue in the datasheet. > > Before adding bindings for V4M add a family compatible fallback for > Gen4. That way the driver only needs to be updated once for Gen4, and we > still have the option to fix any problems in the driver if any testable > differences between the SoCs are found. > > There are already DTS files using the V3U and V4H compatibles which > needs to be updated to not produce a warning for DTS checks. The driver s/needs/need/ > also needs to kept the compatible values to be backward compatible , but s/kept/keep/ > for new Gen4 SoCs such as V4M we can avoid this. > > Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > * Changes since v4 > - Added V3U to the list of Gen4 devices. > > * Changes since v3 > - New in v4. > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,vin.yaml | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,vin.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,vin.yaml > index 5539d0f8e74d..aa16f1528f2d 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,vin.yaml > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,vin.yaml > @@ -52,8 +52,11 @@ properties: > - renesas,vin-r8a77980 # R-Car V3H > - renesas,vin-r8a77990 # R-Car E3 > - renesas,vin-r8a77995 # R-Car D3 > + - items: > + - enum: > - renesas,vin-r8a779a0 # R-Car V3U > - renesas,vin-r8a779g0 # R-Car V4H > + - const: renesas,rcar-gen4-vin # Generic R-Car Gen4 > > reg: > maxItems: 1 -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
