[PATCH RFC 24/24] drm/lima: add makefile and kconfig

Qiang Yu yuq825 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 14:18:36 UTC 2018


On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 8:07 PM André Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/14/2018 02:14 AM, Qiang Yu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Thanks for your info. What a surprise that exist such a SoC. That
> > means I have to
> > judge if it's a 64bit CPU in other way than just check ARM64 config.
>
> Yeah, you should do anyways. Actually you should try to avoid those
> explicit checks in the first place. Drivers shouldn't need to care about
> the "bit size" of the CPU and Linux provides many ways to automatically
> cope with that, with types likes phys_addr_t for instance.
> Quickly grep-ing I find "need_dma32" in lima_ttm.c:lima_ttm_init(), is
> that the only place you need to check?
Yes, mali GPU can only use physical mem within 32bit address space.
So I check ARM64 and ARM_LPAE for possible more than 32bit
address space to pass in “need_dma32”.

Regards,
Qiang

>
> Cheers,
> Andre.
>
> > Regards,
> > Qiang
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 1:23 AM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/23/2018 17:16, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On 05/18/2018 11:28 AM, Qiang Yu wrote:
> >>>> From: Lima Project Developers <dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Qiang Yu <yuq825 at gmail.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Shields <simon at lineageos.org>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig       |  2 ++
> >>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile      |  1 +
> >>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Kconfig  |  9 +++++++++
> >>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Makefile | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>  4 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> >>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Kconfig
> >>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Makefile
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> >>>> index deeefa7a1773..f00d529ee034 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> >>>> @@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ source "drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig"
> >>>>
> >>>>  source "drivers/gpu/drm/tve200/Kconfig"
> >>>>
> >>>> +source "drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Kconfig"
> >>>> +
> >>>>  # Keep legacy drivers last
> >>>>
> >>>>  menuconfig DRM_LEGACY
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile
> >>>> index 50093ff4479b..aba686e41d6b 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile
> >>>> @@ -103,3 +103,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_MXSFB)  += mxsfb/
> >>>>  obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_TINYDRM) += tinydrm/
> >>>>  obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_PL111) += pl111/
> >>>>  obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_TVE200) += tve200/
> >>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_LIMA)  += lima/
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Kconfig
> >>>> new file mode 100644
> >>>> index 000000000000..4ce9ac2e8204
> >>>> --- /dev/null
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/Kconfig
> >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> >>>> +
> >>>> +config DRM_LIMA
> >>>> +       tristate "LIMA (DRM support for ARM Mali 400/450 GPU)"
> >>>> +       depends on DRM
> >>>> +       depends on ARCH_SUNXI || ARCH_ROCKCHIP || ARCH_EXYNOS || ARCH_MESON
> >>>
> >>> You can add ARCH_ZYNQMP here too , it has Mali 400 MP2.
> >>
> >> Well, as Qiang Yu already figured, it seems much smarter to not enumerate
> >> every possible platform here.
> >> More than that, the Kconfig depends should be strictly technical. There is
> >> nothing in this driver which is ARM specific, in fact I managed to compile
> >> it for x86-64 as well (with some small fix in a random header file).
> >> In fact there are x86-64 based SoCs pairing Intel Atom cores with a Mali GPUs:
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip#Tablet_processors_with_integrated_modem
> >>
> >> So you can get rid of this whole line at all, meaning you don't even need
> >> the "depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST" you have in your gitlab repo.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Andre.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Marek Vasut
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