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From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
	David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
	NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] drm/imx/lcdc: Implement DRM driver for imx21
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:57:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221216235758.GA88372-robh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221216175006.456831-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 06:50:04PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 
>  - added allOf as Krzysztof requested
>  - reworked driver based on Philipp's comments
>    (improved error handling, different selects, moved driver to a subdirectory,
>    header sorting, drm_err instead of DRM_ERROR, inlined
>    imx_lcdc_check_mode_change, make use of dev_err_probe())
>  
> Krzysztof also pointed out that we're now having two compatibles for a
> single hardware. Admittedly this is unusual, but this is the chance that
> the (bad) compatible identifier imx21-fb gets deprecated. The hardware
> is called LCDC and only the linux (framebuffer) driver is called imxfb.

The problem is you can't have firmware (with the DTB) that supports 
both. Well, you can if you want to have some firmware setting that 
selects which one. Otherwise, it's really an OS problem to decide what 
to use. 

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-16 17:50 [PATCH v3 0/2] drm/imx/lcdc: Implement DRM driver for imx21 Uwe Kleine-König
2022-12-16 17:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: display: imx: Describe drm binding for fsl,imx-lcdc Uwe Kleine-König
2022-12-16 18:06 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] drm/imx/lcdc: Implement DRM driver for imx21 Philipp Zabel
2022-12-16 23:57 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2022-12-17 18:38   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2022-12-20 18:19     ` Rob Herring
2022-12-21 10:48       ` Uwe Kleine-König

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