linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add ARM Mali Midgard device tree bindings and gpu node for rk3288

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Date:   Mon, 08 May 2017 18:27:02 +0200
From:   Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:     Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@...labora.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@...labora.com>,
        Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        John Reitan <john.reitan@....com>,
        Wookey <wookey@...kware.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add ARM Mali Midgard device tree bindings and gpu node for rk3288

Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017, 10:56:24 CEST schrieb Guillaume Tucker:
> The ARM Mali Midgard GPU kernel driver is only available
> out-of-tree and is not going to be merged in its current form.
> However, it would be useful to have its device tree bindings
> merged.  In particular, this would enable distributions to create
> working driver packages (dkms...) without having to patch the
> kernel.
> 
> The bindings for the earlier Mali Utgard GPU family have already
> been merged, so this is essentially the same scenario but for
> newer GPUs (Mali-T604 ~ Mali-T880).
> 
> This series of patches first imports the bindings from the latest
> driver release with some clean-up then adds a gpu node for the
> rk3288 SoC.  This was successfully tested on Radxa Rock2 Square,
> Firefly, Veyron Minnie and Jerry boards using Mali kernel driver
> r16p0 and r12p0 user-space binary.

The actual devicetree parts are all Rockchip-specific, so I guess I'll just
pick up the whole series, including the binding doc, after the merge
window if nobody complains before that :-)


Heiko