Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: gpu: Add Mali Utgard bindings

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi Neil,

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> On 01/17/2017 10:38 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 08:49:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 02:24:23PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >>> The ARM Mali Utgard GPU family is embedded into a number of SoCs from
> >>> Allwinner, Amlogic, Mediatek or Rockchip.
> >>>
> >>> Add a binding for the GPU of that family.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
> >>> ---
> >>>  .../devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-utgard.txt    | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+)
> >>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-utgard.txt
> >>
> >> Do you have a driver in kernel which will implement these bindings?
> > 
> > No, but we have bindings for out-of-tree drivers already.
> > 
> >> Defining them for out-of-tree driver does not bring any benefits
> >> (3rd party driver will not respect them anyway).
> > 
> > You could see it the other way around too. The out-of-tree drivers
> > don't respect it at the moment because there's no binding to respect.
> > 
> > And at least for us, we definitely plan on doing that.
> > 
> > Maxime
> 
> Hi Maxime, Krzysztof,
> 
> We hope this will be accepted so it will solve the same issue we
> have on Amlogic SoCs and all the other mali powered SoCs.

Do you have any requirements (or weird case) that is not covered by
the current doc?

Thanks,
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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