Re: [PATCH 6/7] dt-bindings: display: allwinner: Update H616 DE33 binding

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-11-16T11:33:22Z

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 03:13:46PM +0100, Jernej Skrabec wrote:
> As it turns out, current H616 DE33 binding was written based on
> incomplete understanding of DE33 design. Namely, planes are shared
> resource and not tied to specific mixer, which was the case for previous
> generations of Display Engine (DE3 and earlier).
>
> This means that current DE33 binding doesn't properly reflect HW and
> using it would mean that second mixer (used for second display output)
> can't be supported.
>
> Update DE33 mixer binding so instead of referencing planes register
> space, it contains phandle to newly introduced DE33 planes node.
>
> There is no user of this binding yet, so changes can be made safely,
> without breaking any backward compatibility.

And why would you configure statically - per soc - always the same plane
as per mixer? If you do that, it means it is really fixed and internal
to display engine thus should not be exposed in DT.

Describing each IP block resource in DT is way too granular.

Best regards,
Krzysztof