linux-kernel - Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 1/2] ARM: sun8i: v3s: add device nodes for DE2 display pipeline

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Date:   Sat, 3 Jun 2017 00:10:40 +0200
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:     icenowy@...c.io
Cc:     wens@...e.org,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-sunxi <linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 1/2] ARM: sun8i: v3s: add device nodes for
 DE2 display pipeline

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 09:01:59PM +0800, icenowy@...c.io wrote:
> 在 2017-05-29 16:59，Maxime Ripard 写道：
> > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:28:24PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> > > >>>> +                       compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-v3s-de2-mixer";
> > > >>>> +                       reg = <0x01100000 0x100000>;
> > > >>>
> > > >>>The display engine also has an interrupt. Please list it
> > > >>
> > > >> It's a overall interrupt for DE2, not mixer interrupt.
> > > >>
> > > >> I will add it after we have proper interrupt chaining facility
> > > >> for DE2.
> > > >>
> > > >> It cannot fit here in mixer node.
> > > >
> > > > Could you elaborate? If it is just shared, then listing it several
> > > > times is OK. If the interrupt registers are not in this address
> > > > space, then
> > > 
> > > The interrupt dealing code is still not so clear, and totally not
> > > present in BSP DE2 code (the BSP just didn't use the interrupt).
> > > 
> > > We doesn't even know where the interrupt register is, and we cannot
> > > promise it's not broken (as their is even no application of it in
> > > BSP).
> > 
> > Whether it's broken or not is out of the question here. Adding it
> > later would either break the DT compatibility, or introduce a crippled
> > driver for users that do not have a recent enough DT. None of the two
> > are really acceptable.
> > 
> > Especially if your plan is to add support for these.
> 
> I have no such plan -- even the BSP driver doesn't use the IRQ at all.

We'll see how it turns out.. I applied that patch.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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