Re: [v9,01/27] drm/connector: Introduce an HDMI connector initialization function

Sui Jingfeng
2024-03-13T23:34:37Z

Hi,

On 2024/3/11 22:49, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> A lot of the various HDMI drivers duplicate some logic that depends on
> the HDMI spec itself and not really a particular hardware
> implementation.
>
> Output BPC or format selection, infoframe generation are good examples
> of such areas.
>
> This creates a lot of boilerplate, with a lot of variations, which makes
> it hard for userspace to rely on, and makes it difficult to get it right
> for drivers.
>
> In the next patches, we'll add a lot of infrastructure around the
> drm_connector and drm_connector_state structures, which will allow to
> abstract away the duplicated logic. This infrastructure comes with a few
> requirements though, and thus we need a new initialization function.
>
> Hopefully, this will make drivers simpler to handle, and their behaviour
> more consistent.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@raspberrypi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Sui Jingfeng <sui.jingfeng@linux.dev>

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Best regards,
Sui