Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add ARM Mali Midgard device tree bindings and gpu node for rk3288

[Heiko Stübner]

Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017, 10:56:24 CEST schrieb Guillaume Tucker:
> The ARM Mali Midgard GPU kernel driver is only available
> out-of-tree and is not going to be merged in its current form.
> However, it would be useful to have its device tree bindings
> merged.  In particular, this would enable distributions to create
> working driver packages (dkms...) without having to patch the
> kernel.
> 
> The bindings for the earlier Mali Utgard GPU family have already
> been merged, so this is essentially the same scenario but for
> newer GPUs (Mali-T604 ~ Mali-T880).
> 
> This series of patches first imports the bindings from the latest
> driver release with some clean-up then adds a gpu node for the
> rk3288 SoC.  This was successfully tested on Radxa Rock2 Square,
> Firefly, Veyron Minnie and Jerry boards using Mali kernel driver
> r16p0 and r12p0 user-space binary.

The actual devicetree parts are all Rockchip-specific, so I guess I'll just
pick up the whole series, including the binding doc, after the merge
window if nobody complains before that :-)


Heiko