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

From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>,
	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>,
	Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Doc/DT: DT bindings for various display components
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:56:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5319C204.60907@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53143796.2050309@ti.com>

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On 03/03/14 10:04, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Hi Rob, Pawel, Mark, Ian, Kumar,

Ping,

Any hints on how to continue with this?

> On 28/02/14 18:56, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 06:48:35PM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>>> This is totally unclear to me. How does it become a public standard?
>>> What's the forum for this?
>>
>> Me too.  That's where I'd hope someone on devicetree-discuss will be
>> able to help us work out what's the right approach here. :)
> 
> The story briefly so far: I've implemented DT support for OMAP display,
> and created bindings for various (non-OMAP) display components,
> including generic connector bindings for DVI, HDMI and analog-tv.
> 
> Russell's point was that these connector bindings are very generic, i.e.
> they are not for any particular chip from a particular vendor, but for
> any connector for DVI, HDMI or analog-tv. And he's worried that maybe we
> shouldn't define such generic bindings without consulting the whole
> device-tree community (i.e including non-linux users).
> 
> So the question is, is there such a community and a forum to bring up
> this kind of things? If yes, should we bring this up there? If yes, what
> kind of things in general should be brought into the attention of
> non-linux users?
> 
> What I wonder here is that while a thing like DVI connector is, of
> course, more generic than, say, "ti,tfp410" encoder chip, but isn't the
> case still the same: we're defining global bindings for hardware that
> should work for everyone, not only Linux users?
> 
>  Tomi
> 
> 

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