Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] drm/arm: Add support for Mali Display Processors

Daniel Vetter
2016-06-15T17:13:15Z

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:51:34PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
>> > Add support for the new family of Display Processors from ARM Ltd.
>> > This commit adds basic support for Mali DP500, DP550 and DP650
>> > parts, with only the display engine being supported at the moment.
>> >
>> > Cc: David Brown <David.Brown@arm.com>
>> > Cc: Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@arm.com>
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
>>
>> Small thing I noticed: drm_dev_register/connector_register_all should be
>> the last step in your init code, and unregister the first. Atm it's
>> somewhere in the middle. But perfectly fine to do that as a follow-up.
>
> I've tried that, but the connector and encoder that gets registered as part
> of the component_bind_all() fails if there is no drm dev registered. You did
> comment on the v4 version about that and I did test your idea, sorry for
> forgeting to update you on that.

Why does it fail? That shouldn't happen ... we need to be able to set
up everything first, before we register.
-Daniel
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