Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Move IPUv3 core out of staging, add CSI support

[Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>]

Am Freitag, den 20.12.2013, 11:12 -0800 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 06:52:41PM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this is mostly about the first patch, which moves the IPUv3 core code
> > (drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3) to drivers/gpu. host1x, which
> > serves a similar purpose, already sits there.
> > The other four patches add the necessary code for CSI and SMFC handling,
> > which is used by the V4L2 CSI capture driver.
> > 
> > Currently this is based on Russell's patch
> >     [PATCH 62/64] imx-drm: pass an IPU ID to crtc and core
> > 
> > I am aware that there are now quite a few other patches in the pipeline
> > that touch drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/*, so I am happy to rebase this
> > (or them) as needed. I'd like to move the core code out of staging so that
> > we can start submitting V4L2 code for video capture and scaling / colorspace
> > conversion in parallel.
> 
> I'd recommend doing the move (if the gpu/drm maintainer agrees) after
> 3.14-rc1 as then all of my pending patches would be applied and we would
> be synced up with everything.

Ok.

> Once this "core" is moved, what is keeping the rest in staging and why
> isn't it moving out as well?

Russell put a lot of work into fixing imx-drm issues, and I'd like to
make the change to a common device tree binding before this leaves
staging.

regards
Philipp