[PATCH] drm/sun4i: Remove R40 display pipeline compatibles

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at bootlin.com
Thu Aug 30 08:13:42 UTC 2018


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 04:39:50PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Two patches from the R40 display pipeline support series weren't applied
> with the rest of the series. When they did get applied, the -rc6
> deadline for drm-misc-next had past, so they didn't get into 4.19-rc1
> with the rest of the series. However, the two patches are crucial in
> the parsing of the R40's display pipeline graph in the device tree.
> Without them, the driver crashes because it can't follow the odd graph
> structure.
> 
> This patch removes the R40 compatibles from the sun4i-drm driver,
> effectively disabling DRM support for the R40 for one release cycle.
> This will prevent the driver from crashing upon probing.
> 
> The compatibles should be reinstated for the next release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> ---
> 
> This is for 4.19-rc to fix the boot crash seen on the R40.
> 
> This should go in drm-misc-fixes and into Linus' tree ASAP.
> Once merged, the branch should also be merged into drm-misc-next,
> and then we can revert it.

Applied, thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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