[PATCH v2 12/26] drm/exynos: Split manager/display/subdrv

[Dave Airlie]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> As I mentioned earlier, display_ops is needed to have no any
>>> dependency of drm framework directly like below,
>>>
>>>                                           DRM Framework
>>>                                                        |
>>>                                         Exynos DRM Framework
>>>                                                     /   |   \
>>>                                          Real device drivers
>>>
>>> In particular, in case of ARM based DRM drivers with separated
>>> devices, I still tend to think it's better design than that device
>>> drivers implement the connector callbacks directly, but I will try to
>>> consider what is the better way.
>>>
>>
>> I think we need to start considering a framework where subdrivers just
>> add drm objects themselves, then the toplevel node is responsible for
>> knowing that everything for the current configuration is loaded.
>>
>
> It would be nice to specify the various pieces in dt, then have some
> type of drm notifier to the toplevel node when everything has been
> probed. Doing it in the dt would allow standalone drm_bridge/drm_panel
> drivers to be transparent as far as the device's drm driver is
> concerned.
>
> Sean
>
>
>> I realise we may need to make changes to the core drm to allow this
>> but we should probably start to create a strategy for fixing the API
>> issues that this throws up.
>>
>> Note I'm not yet advocating for dynamic addition of nodes once the
>> device is in use, or removing them.
>>

I do wonder if we had some sort of tag in the device tree for any nodes
involved in the display, and the core drm layer would read that list,
and when every driver registers tick things off, and when the last one
joins we get a callback and init the drm layer, we'd of course have the
basic drm layer setup prior to that so we can add the objects as the
drivers load. It might make development a bit trickier as you'd need
to make sure someone claimed ownership of all the bits for init to proceed.

Dave.