linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 03/13] media: hantro: Use syscon instead of 'ctrl' register

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Message-ID: <e7064bb1-69e6-4214-380d-c464b7832da5@collabora.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:31:16 +0200
From:   Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...labora.com>
To:     Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>, ezequiel@...labora.com,
        p.zabel@...gutronix.de, mchehab@...nel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        shawnguo@...nel.org, s.hauer@...gutronix.de, festevam@...il.com,
        lee.jones@...aro.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        mripard@...nel.org, paul.kocialkowski@...tlin.com, wens@...e.org,
        jernej.skrabec@...l.net, emil.l.velikov@...il.com,
        "Peng Fan (OSS)" <peng.fan@....nxp.com>,
        Jacky Bai <ping.bai@....com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-imx@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 03/13] media: hantro: Use syscon instead of 'ctrl'
 register


Le 20/04/2021 à 11:16, Hans Verkuil a écrit :
> On 20/04/2021 11:10, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
>> Le 16/04/2021 à 17:14, Lucas Stach a écrit :
>>> Am Freitag, dem 16.04.2021 um 15:08 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Gaignard:
>>>> Le 16/04/2021 à 12:54, Lucas Stach a écrit :
>>>>> Am Mittwoch, dem 07.04.2021 um 09:35 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Gaignard:
>>>>>> In order to be able to share the control hardware block between
>>>>>> VPUs use a syscon instead a ioremap it in the driver.
>>>>>> To keep the compatibility with older DT if 'nxp,imx8mq-vpu-ctrl'
>>>>>> phandle is not found look at 'ctrl' reg-name.
>>>>>> With the method it becomes useless to provide a list of register
>>>>>> names so remove it.
>>>>> Sorry for putting a spoke in the wheel after many iterations of the
>>>>> series.
>>>>>
>>>>> We just discussed a way forward on how to handle the clocks and resets
>>>>> provided by the blkctl block on i.MX8MM and later and it seems there is
>>>>> a consensus on trying to provide virtual power domains from a blkctl
>>>>> driver, controlling clocks and resets for the devices in the power
>>>>> domain. I would like to avoid introducing yet another way of handling
>>>>> the blkctl and thus would like to align the i.MX8MQ VPU blkctl with
>>>>> what we are planning to do on the later chip generations.
>>>>>
>>>>> CC'ing Jacky Bai and Peng Fan from NXP, as they were going to give this
>>>>> virtual power domain thing a shot.
>>>> That could replace the 3 first patches and Dt patche of this series
>>>> but that will not impact the hevc part, so I wonder if pure hevc patches
>>>> could be merged anyway ?
>>>> They are reviewed and don't depend of how the ctrl block is managed.
>>> I'm not really in a position to give any informed opinion about that
>>> hvec patches, as I only skimmed them, but I don't see any reason to
>>> delay patches 04-11 from this series until the i.MX8M platform issues
>>> are sorted. AFAICS those things are totally orthogonal.
>> Hi Hans,
>> What do you think about this proposal to split this series ?
>> Get hevc part merged could allow me to continue to add features
>> like scaling lists, compressed reference buffers and 10-bit supports.
> Makes sense to me!

Great !
If the latest version match your expectations how would you like to processed ?
Can you merged patches 4 to 12 ? or should I resend them in a new shorted series ?

Regards,
Benjamin

>
> Regards,
>
> 	Hans
>