On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:25 PM Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This documents the longer-term plan to cleanup the dw-mipi-dsi bridge > based drivers after the regmap refactor and i.MX6 driver have landed. > > The goal is to get the entire bridge logic in one place and continue > the refactorings under the drm/bridge tree. > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This cc's the world, but not dri-devel. Can you pls resubmit with that added? Thanks, Daniel > --- > Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > index 658b52f7ffc6c..2b142980a4b16 100644 > --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > @@ -548,6 +548,31 @@ See drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/TODO for tasks. > > Contact: Harry Wentland, Alex Deucher > > +Reorganize dw-mipi-dsi bridge-based host-controller drivers > +----------------------------------------------------------- > + > +The Synopsys DW MIPI DSI bridge is used by a number of SoC platform drivers > +(STM, Rockchip, i.MX) which don't cleanly encapsulate their bridge logic which > +gets split between the Synopsys bridge (drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c) and > +platform drivers like drm/imx/dw_mipi_dsi-imx6.c by passing around the bridge > +configuration regmap, creating new bridges / daisy chaining in platform drivers, > +duplicating encoder creation, having too much encoder logic instead of using the > +simple encoder interface and so on. > + > +The goal of this rework is to make the dw-mipi-dsi driver a better encapsulated > +bridge by moving all bridge-related logic under drm/bridge, including the SoC > +bindings which chain to the core Synopsys code under drm/bridge/dw-mipi-dsi/ > +from which they can be further consolidated and cleaned up. > + > +If this goal proves to be impossible then drm_bridge might not be the correct > +abstraction for these host controllers and unifying their logic into a helper > +library encapsulating a drm_encoder might be more desirable, in other words to > +move away from drm_bridge entirely. > + > +Contact: Adrian Ratiu, Daniel Vetter, Laurent Pinchart > + > +Level: Intermediate > + > Bootsplash > ========== > > -- > 2.27.0 > -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Linux-rockchip mailing list Linux-rockchip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip
