linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/msm/mdp5: drop support for MSM8998, SDM630 and SDM660

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Message-ID: <64995765-485b-42c8-9fef-78d9df899143@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:22:46 +0100
From: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@....qualcomm.com>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@....qualcomm.com>,
        Rob Clark <robin.clark@....qualcomm.com>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov
 <lumag@...nel.org>,
        Abhinav Kumar <abhinav.kumar@...ux.dev>,
        Jessica Zhang <jesszhan0024@...il.com>, Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
        Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@...ainline.org>,
        Alexey Minnekhanov <alexeymin@...tmarketos.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm/mdp5: drop support for MSM8998, SDM630 and SDM660

On 12/11/25 2:25 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> Currently MDP5 3.x (MSM8998, SDM630 and SDM660) platforms are support
> by both DPU and MDP5 drivers. Support for them in the DPU driver is
> mature enough, so it's no longer sensible to keep them enabled in the
> MDP5 driver. Not to mention that MSM8998 never used an MDP5 compatible
> string. Drop support for the MDP5 3.x genration inside the MDP5
> driver and migrate those to the DPU driver only.
> 
> Note: this will break if one uses the DT generated before v6.3 as they
> had only the generic, "qcom,mdp5" compatible string for SDM630 and
> SDM660. However granted that we had two LTS releases inbetween I don't
> think it is an issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@....qualcomm.com>
> ---

I wouldn't be surprised if the DPU description was "better" too, since
they've gone through rounds of reviews

FWIW

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@....qualcomm.com>

Konrad