Re: [PATCH v4, 05/33] dt-bindings: mediatek: add RDMA1 description for mt8183 display

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 18:24:10 EST


On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 9:20 PM CK Hu <ck.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, Rob:
>
> On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 14:16 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 06:33:45AM +0800, yongqiang.niu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Yongqiang Niu <yongqiang.niu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > This patch add RDMA1 description for mt8183 display
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Niu <yongqiang.niu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,disp.txt | 1 +
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,disp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,disp.txt
> > > index afd3c90..bb9274a 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,disp.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,disp.txt
> > > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Required properties (all function blocks):
> > > "mediatek,<chip>-disp-ovl" - overlay (4 layers, blending, csc)
> > > "mediatek,<chip>-disp-ovl-2l" - overlay (2 layers, blending, csc)
> > > "mediatek,<chip>-disp-rdma" - read DMA / line buffer
> > > + "mediatek,<chip>-disp-rdma1" - function is same with RDMA, fifo size is different
> >
> > This can't be determined by which chip it is? IOW, a chip may have both
> > rdma and rdma1?
>
> In MT8183, there are two different rdma. The difference is the fifo size
> in each one. I've a question: is it better to have two compatible string
> for each one, or just one compatible string for both but with a property
> to set fifo size?

If that's the only diff, then a property for fifo size is fine. We
just don't want to be adding a new property for each new difference.