Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] drm/lsdc: add drm driver for loongson display controller

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Wed Feb 09 2022 - 09:04:46 EST


On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 11:56:48AM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
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> 在 2022/2/9 8:52, Maxime Ripard 写道:
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 11:47:16PM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> [...]
> > DT isn't really a solution either. Let's take the distribution
> > perspective there. Suppose you're a Fedora or Debian developer, and want
> > to make a single kernel image, and ship a DT to the user for their board
> > without any modification. How is either the Kconfig solution or DT flags
> > solution any good there? It doesn't help them at all.
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> We are working in another way. As we can tell model of the board by strings
> passed from the firmware, we just built-in all poosible DTs into the kernel
> and then tell which DT to load at boot time. So we can ensure users has
> smmoth experience.

It's not really for you to say though. Once your driver is in a release,
distros are going to use it. That's the whole point of you asking us to
merge it.

Maxime

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