Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] dt-bindings: display: simple-framebuffer: Document physical width and height properties

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:25:38PM +0000, Rayyan Ansari wrote:
> On 22/01/2023 15:36, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 9:36 AM Rayyan Ansari <rayyan@ansari.sh> wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > Why do you need this change?
> > 
> > The 'simple-framebuffer' contains data on how the bootloader
> > configured the display. The bootloader doesn't configure the display
> > size, so this information doesn't belong here. The information should
> > already be in the panel node, so also no point in duplicating it here.
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Rayyan Ansari <rayyan@ansari.sh>
> > > ---
> > >   .../devicetree/bindings/display/simple-framebuffer.yaml   | 8 ++++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> There is the usecase that Hans has mentioned, but I have also mentioned
> another usecase previously.
> 
> Adding the width-mm and height-mm properties allows user interfaces such as
> Phosh (https://puri.sm/posts/phosh-overview/) to scale correctly to the
> screen. In my case, a panel node is not available and the aforementioned
> interface is in fact running on the SimpleDRM driver (which binds to the
> simple-framebuffer device).

Why is the panel node not available? Why not add it? Presumably it is 
not there because you aren't (yet) using the simple-panel driver (and 
others that would need). But presumably you will eventually as I'd 
imagine turning the screen off and back on might be a desired feature.

So why add a temporary DT property that's tied to your *current* kernel? 
The DT should not be tightly coupled to the kernel.

Rob