[PATCH RFC 00/11] drm/tilcdc: Atomic modeset support

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Tuesday 10 May 2016 16:18:54 Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org> wrote:
> > Den 10.05.2016 11:14, skrev Jyri Sarha:
> >> On 05/10/16 09:34, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >>>>>>> There's a drm_simple_display_pipe floating around which seems
> >>>>>>> perfectly suited to tilcdc. It's meant for the case where you have 1
> >>>>>>> plane, 1 crtc and 1 encoder maybe linking to different connectors.
> >>>>>>> And it takes care of all the small bits for you, with a grand total
> >>>>>>> of 5 callbacks, all of them optional.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Might indeed be useful to rebase tilcdc on top of that, should be
> >>>>>> possible to nuke piles of code.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Looks interesting. Does it look like it is getting ready to be merged
> >>>>> soon?
> >>> 
> >>> Should be landind soon, yes. Probably not for 4.7, that's closed now,
> >>> but
> >>> I can still pick it up into drm-misc right away when it's ready. Open
> >>> review comments are all just small things, you could pick the latest
> >>> version to start prototyping a conversion and there shouldn't be any
> >>> surprises when you rebase onto the merged version.
> >> 
> >> Hmmm, too bad it wants to own its encoder. LCDC on Beaglebone-Black
> >> needs the componentized external tda998x driver. So at least in its
> >> current form the drm_simple_display_pipe wont work for tilcdc.
> >> 
> >> It may not be too big a job to add an external encoder support, but
> >> would it complicate currently so nice and simple driver structure too
> >> much?
> > 
> > How about we add an argument for encoder and if it is NULL, then the no-op
> > encoder is used:
>
> Hm, my idea with external transcoders was to pull them in as a
> drm_bridge. That's of course more work, and we already have a
> proliferation of different transcoder driver standards in drm
> unfortunately (there's drm_bridge, but als to drm_encoder_slave).

drm_encoder_slave has to go. As a first step the adv7511 driver is being 
converted to a drm_bridge by Archit. Any volunteer for the three other drivers 
? We also need to clearly state that new drivers must use drm_bridge.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart