Re: [PATCH 0/9] Doc/DT: DT bindings for various display components

[Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>]

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Hi Grant,

Ping.

Are you fine with me proceeding with the current V4L2 port/endpoint
bindings?

 Tomi

On 12/03/14 10:15, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Hi Grant,
> 
> On 28/02/14 14:20, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This series is a re-send of
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/61739
>>
>> I'm cc'ing more people, and I want to clarify the contents of the series:
>>
>> While this has been developed for OMAP, only the first patch is about OMAP
>> bindings. The rest are generic bindings for video components, which can be used
>> on any platform.
>>
>> The bindings use the V4L2 style video port/endpoint system, described in
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt, to connect the
>> components. The same port/endpoint bindings are used by Philipp Zabel in his
>> imx-drm patch series.
> 
> This series is a piece of bigger series, which brings DT support for
> OMAP display subsystem. This uses the same V4L2 style ports/endpoints as
> has been discussed recently regarding the series from Philipp. It
> doesn't use the helper code from Philipp, but a custom one as Philipp's
> code didn't exist when I made this, and also because I needed extra
> functionality not present in Philipp's series (which aimed to just move
> the current V4L2 code to a common place).
> 
> The main concerns with the ports/endpoints has been the optional 'port'
> node for the case where we have a single endpoint, and the
> double-linking of the endpoints.
> 
> If I remove the optional 'port' usage from my series, are you ok with me
> proceeding with this series for 3.15, with the double-linked endpoints?
> 
> As far as I see, when we come to a conclusion how the linking should be
> made, it's trivial to change the bindings in this series to match it,
> even without needing any compatibility code. I just need to remove the
> other link, and old dts files having double-linking will still work fine.
> 
> The reason I want to push this forward asap is that omap4 and omap5 are
> already DT only, and for omap5 we don't have working display without DT
> support for display. For omap4, we have a really hacky way to add
> display support for a few boards, but that is causing major headaches
> and I want to get rid of it.
> 
>  Tomi
> 
> 



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