Re: [RFC,3/3] drm/komeda: Allow non-component drm_bridge only endpoints

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin
Date: Tue Oct 22 2019 - 10:42:25 EST


On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:50:42AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:48 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I had a patches, which is why I raised the problem with the core:
> >
> > 6961edfee26d bridge hacks using device links
> >
> > but it never went further than an experiment at the time because of the
> > problems in the core. As it was a hack, it never got posted. Seems
> > that kernel tree (for the cubox) is still 5.2 based, so has a lot of
> > patches and might need updating to a more recent base before anything
> > can be tested.
>
>
> For reference, the panel patch:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10364873/
>
> And the huge discussion around bridges, that resulted in Rafael
> Wyzocki fixing all the core issues:
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg201927.html
>
> James, do you want to look into this for bridges?

I can now confirm that it does work.

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