* Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> [131218 02:22]: > On 2013-12-18 09:12, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > > >> Well yeah let's keep those separate still as at least Russell needed > >> some more time with the legacy booting. The point we can drop the > >> legacy booting for omap3 may still need to wait a bit, maybe even > >> until v3.15 to keep things working. > > > > They can't be separate. Once I add DT support for a board, I have to > > remove the legacy support for that board. This patch removes legacy > > support for the boards that are converted in the series. > > > > If I don't remove the legacy support, both DT and legacy side will be > > ran, and both create the DSS devices... > > > > But, it's true that this patch removes the whole file, as all the boards > > currently there are converted. But if new boards are added to the DSS > > quirks, then I can't remove the file. So I'll change this patch to only > > remove the parts for the converted boards, not the whole file. > > > > But but... If I understand right, the plan is to remove all omap3 board > > files for the next merge window. I'm not totally familiar with the > > quirks system, but how should this be handled: > > > > omap3.dtsi will contain the SoC's DSS nodes. This means that DSS devices > > are created via DT code. But if the display (i.e. panels) for a > > particular omap3 board has not been converted to DT, we should still use > > the legacy DSS initialization. But the DSS is already initialized via DT. > > > > I guess I can set the status for all the DSS nodes to "disabled" in > > omap3.dtsi, and that should prevent DT code from creating the DSS > > devices. Then, each omap3-board.dts that has been converted to DSS DT, > > can override those to "enabled". > > > > That way the DT code should not create DSS devices by default, and the > > quirks system would probably work fine. > > I changed the DSS DT nodes to be disabled by default, and I think this > works nicely. It's actually better this way in any case, as we can leave > blocks like DSI out for boards that don't need it. > > Also, I now remove the quirks only for the boards that are converted to > DT, not the whole dss-common.c file. So I think we can now add new > boards to dss-common.c, if and when there are ones that cannot be > converted to use DSS DT yet. OK Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
