Re: [PATCH 1/7] drm/msm/dpu: drop VBIF_NRT handling
From: Konrad Dybcio
Date: Mon Mar 02 2026 - 07:44:44 EST
On 2/27/26 7:36 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> The second VBIF instance, VBIF_NRT, is only used for the separate inline
> rotator block. It is unsupported by the DPU driver and will require a
> separate driver (or separate instance of the DPU device).
>
> The only possible user of VBIF_NRT is writeback on MSM8996, however
> writeback on that platform is currently unsupported and it's not worth
> keeping extra complexity for the sake of that single legacy platform.
>
> None of the hardware catalogs entries actually declare VBIF_NRT, so it
> is left in its default state.
>
> Stop pretending that DPU driver cares about VBIF_NRT and drop it.
>
> Reported-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Konrad