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Message-ID: <ed795dc0-823a-f3d8-9e70-1cf33c0de7f0@xen0n.name>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2023 17:28:58 +0800
From:   WANG Xuerui <kernel@...0n.name>
To:     Sui Jingfeng <15330273260@....cn>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@...ngson.cn>,
        Li Yi <liyi@...ngson.cn>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>
Cc:     linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, loongson-kernel@...ts.loongnix.cn,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Liu Peibao <liupeibao@...ngson.cn>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 1/2] drm: add kms driver for loongson display
 controller

On 2023/5/22 17:25, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2023/5/21 20:21, WANG Xuerui wrote:
>>> + * LS3A4000/LS3A5000/LS3A6000 CPU, they are equipped with on-board 
>>> video RAM
>>> + * typically. While LS2K0500/LS2K1000/LS2K2000 are low cost SoCs 
>>> which share
>>> + * the system RAM as video RAM, they don't has a dediacated VRAM.
>>
>> CPU models are not typically prefixed with "LS", so "Loongson 
>> 3A4000/3A5000/3A6000".
>>
> Here is because when you do programming, variable name should prefix 
> with letters.

Commit messages, comments, and log messages etc. are natural language, 
so it's better to treat them differently. No problem to keep code as-is IMO.

>> Also the description about the Loongson 2K series is a bit irrelevant 
>> (we're focusing on VRAM here) so you could simplify the sentence a bit. 
> 
> We could reserve part of system RAM as VRAM for Loongson 2K series SoC.
> 
> Either reserved with 'of reserve memory' orĀ  reserved by the firmware.
> 

What's an "of reserve memory"? Is it "DeviceTree-reserved"?

> The reserve ram will not accessible by kernel itself it this case, and 
> can still be managed by ttm.

Of course. Feel free to tweak.

-- 
WANG "xen0n" Xuerui

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