Re: (subset) [PATCH v4 00/29] Add HDMI support for RK3128

Alex Bee
2024-01-05T17:33:52Z

Am 05.01.24 um 18:02 schrieb Heiko Stübner:
> Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2024, 17:47:21 CET schrieb Alex Bee:
>> Hi Heiko,
>>
>>
>> Am 04.01.24 um 09:14 schrieb Heiko Stuebner:
>>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:41:51 +0100, Alex Bee wrote:
>>>> This is version 4 of my series that aims to add support for the display
>>>> controller (VOP) and the HDMI controller block of RK3128 (which is very
>>>> similar to the one found in RK3036). The original intention of this series
>>>> was to add support for this slightly different integration but is by now,
>>>> driven by maintainer's feedback, exploded to be a rework of inno-hdmi
>>>> driver in large parts. It is, however, a change for the better.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>> Applied, thanks!
>>>
>>> [23/29] drm/rockchip: inno_hdmi: Add variant support
>>> commit: 5f2e93e6719701a91307090f8f7696fd6b3bffdf
>>> [24/29] drm/rockchip: inno_hdmi: Add RK3128 support
>>> commit: aa54f334c291effe321aa4b9ac0e67a895fd7b58
>>> [25/29] drm/rockchip: inno_hdmi: Add basic mode validation
>>> commit: 701029621d4141d0c9f8b81a88a37b95ec84ce65
>>> [26/29] drm/rockchip: inno_hdmi: Drop custom fill_modes hook
>>> commit: 50a3c772bd927dd409c484832ddd9f6bf00b7389
>>>
>>>
>>> For reference, Rob has applied the rk3128 compatible in
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux.git/commit/?id=21960bda59852ca961fcd27fba9f92750caccd06
>> thanks for keeping track on this.
>>
>> Is there any reason the DT paches aren't merged yet? From what I can see
>> they should be fine to be merged in your v6.8-armsoc/dts32 branch which is
>> 6.7-rc1 based. There was only a txt-binding at this point and it's very
>> likely that both the rockchip,inno-hdmi.yaml-conversion and the rk3128
>> additon will both land in 6.8 (they are both in linux-next). Linus' 6.8
>> merge-window will open earliest next week.
> Exactly ... and the arm subarchitectures (Rockchip, etc) feed into the
> more generic soc-tree[0] and from there in a set of pull requests.
>
> Normally everything needs to go to the soc tree before -rc7 .
> With the whole xmas stuff, I sent some stragglers in a second pull
> request on monday, but that was already before Rob applied the
> binding on tuesday.
>
> So 6.8 devicetree stuff is essentially done and the dts patches
> from this series will go in to 6.9 .
>
>
> Hope that explains things a bit :-)
I assumed (for some reason) that sub-architecture maintainers are allowed
to send PRs to the respective upper tree until the merge window opens and
"all the rest" is done within this  ~2 weeks.
Thanks for explaining.

Alex
> Heiko
>
> [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/
>
>> I'm really not pressuring here and I'm fine if they land in 6.9 - it's just
>> for my understanding for further submissions.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>> Best regards,
>
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