2016-02-04 10:45 GMT+01:00 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Frank, > > On Tuesday 02 February 2016 17:05:06 Franck Jullien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to use a Xilinx video infrastructure on a PCIe board. >> As far as I understand it, all Xilinx video drivers make use of the >> device-tree for configuration. > > Correct. Those drivers target the Xilinx SoC FPGAs, no standalone FPGAs > connected to an external CPU. > >> However, my idea is to create a MFD device to bind video drivers. That >> would require Xilinx video drivers to check platform_data and continue >> with device tree configuration if it is null or use platform data if >> available. >> >> Do you think such a change in Xilinx drivers can be considered >> upstream ? Is this the way to go ? > > Your use case is certainly valid, so I'm certainly open to supporting it in > the drivers. > > I'm wondering whether your MFD decide driver could create a DT fragment to > describe the IP cores topology. That way we could reuse the existing DT > support in individual drivers. > I'm working on such a solution (DT framgent, or more precisely devitree dynamic feature). I'll keep you informed whenever I get something usable. Franck. -- 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
