Hi Laurent,
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 8:31 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Mitsubishi AA1024XD12 panel can be used for R-Car Gen2 and Gen3
> boards as an optional external panel. It is described in the
> arm/boot/dts/r8a77xx-aa104xd12-panel.dtsi file as a direct child of the
> DT root node. This allows including r8a77xx-aa104xd12-panel.dtsi in
> board device trees, with other minor modifications, to enable the panel.
>
> This is however not how external components should be modelled. Instead
> of modifying the board device tree to enable the panel, it should be
> compiled as a DT overlay, to be loaded by the boot loader.
>
> Prepare the r8a77xx-aa104xd12-panel.dtsi file for this usage by
> declaring a panel node only, without hardcoding its path. Overlay
> sources can then include r8a77xx-aa104xd12-panel.dtsi where appropriate.
>
> This change doesn't cause any regression as r8a77xx-aa104xd12-panel.dtsi
> is currently unused. As overlay support for this panel has only been
> tested with Gen3 hardware, and Gen2 support will require more
> development, move the file to arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch!
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a77xx-aa104xd12-panel.dtsi
> - * Copyright (C) 2014 Renesas Electronics Corp.
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/panel-aa104xd12.dtsi
> + * Copyright (C) 2021 Renesas Electronics Corp.
Shouldn't you keep the year? Not much has changed.
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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