[PATCH v4 5/7] drm/tidss: Set bus_format correctly from bridge/connector

[Aradhya Bhatia]

Hi Francesco,

On 30-Mar-23 22:47, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> Hello,
> chiming in in this *old* email thread.
> 
> Adding in copy a few more *@ti.com people recently involved in other tidss
> changes [1]
> 
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230125113529.13952-1-a-bhatia1@ti.com/
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 11:50:30AM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 17:48:28 +0530
>> Nikhil Devshatwar <nikhil.nd at ti.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Remove the old code to iterate over the bridge chain, as this is
>>> already done by the framework.
>>> The bridge state should have the negotiated bus format and flags.
>>> Use these from the bridge's state.
>>> If the bridge does not support format negotiation, error out
>>> and fail.
>>
>> That'd be even better if you implement the bridge interface instead of
>> the encoder one so we can get rid of the encoder_{helper}_funcs and use
>> drm_simple_encoder_init().
> 
> Did anything happened on this old discussion? I was working on a very
> similar change and after a while I realized about this thread.
> 
Nikhil has moved on from TI.

I will be taking up this patch series and implement the changes
requested.


Boris, Tomi

Are the changes discussed on this patch still relevant for the display
controller driver to support DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR?

Or are there some new changes in the framework that I should be looking
at?

Regards
Aradhya