From: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@traphandler.com>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] drm/panel: add simple-panel description using DT
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 09:29:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5375BE67.8000103@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140513075148.GF6754@ulmo>
On 13/05/2014 09:51, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 04:16:40PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
>> Hello Thierry,
>>
>> I noticed you're describing each new panel with a new entry in the
>> of_platform_match table and a new compatible string.
>> I guess you have a good reason to do it this way, because retrieving
>> panel description from DT would be pretty easy (see this series ;-)).
>>
>> Could tell me why you chose this approach ?
> The reason is that devicetree mandates that a device be identified using
> a compatible value and that compatible value should be as specific as
> possible. That compatible value should give the device driver enough
> information to know everything it needs (resolution, timings, physical
> dimension).
>
> Having all of that data in the device tree is redundant.
Okay, thanks for your answer.
As a result, you'll see a patch adding support for the FL500WVR00-A0T
(foxlink) panel soon ;-).
Best Regards,
Boris
--
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-16 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 14:16 [RFC PATCH 0/2] drm/panel: add simple-panel description using DT Boris BREZILLON
2014-05-09 14:16 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] drm/panel: add support for simple-panel description definition " Boris BREZILLON
2014-05-12 13:02 ` Boris BREZILLON
2014-05-09 14:16 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] drm/panel: update simple-panel DT bindings doc with panel desc properties Boris BREZILLON
2014-05-13 7:53 ` Thierry Reding
2014-05-13 7:51 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] drm/panel: add simple-panel description using DT Thierry Reding
2014-05-13 9:09 ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-05-13 9:20 ` Thierry Reding
2014-05-16 7:29 ` Boris BREZILLON [this message]
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