From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philipp Zabel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] i.MX53 IPU + TVE patches Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <1365493486.4023.13.camel@pizza.hi.pengutronix.de> References: <1365437078-22579-1-git-send-email-p.zabel@pengutronix.de> <20130408174016.GB30036@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130408174016.GB30036-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: "devicetree-discuss" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org, kernel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org, Fabio Estevam , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, Am Montag, den 08.04.2013, 10:40 -0700 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:04:31PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the following patches allow to use the integrated Television Encoder > > (TVEv2) on the i.MX53 SoC as VGA output encoder for the IPU. This is > > useful for the Freescale i.MX53-QSB and TQ MBa53 boards, which have > > VGA and DVI-I connectors, respectively. > > > > regards > > Philipp > > > > --- > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/Kconfig | 7 + > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/Makefile | 1 + > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/imx-drm-core.c | 15 +- > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/imx-drm.h | 14 +- > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/imx-tve.c | 755 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/imx-ipu-v3.h | 3 + > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-dc.c | 55 +- > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-di.c | 100 +++- > > drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipuv3-crtc.c | 11 +- > > 9 files changed, 932 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) > > That's a lot of new features being added here, yet no work seems to be > happening to move this out of the staging tree. What is left to do > here, and why isn't that being worked on first, before stuff like this? the IPU code could still use a bit of testing, and I hope adding features like VGA output on common development boards will increase the amount of scrutiny this code will get. I expect the structure of the IPU drivers to change when the common display framework gets introduced at last, also requiring changes to the device tree bindings, and I'm a bit reluctant to push for mainline proper while the bindings are still not clear. regards Philipp