Re: [PATCH v1 17/17] drm/mediatek: Add mt8195-dpi support to drm_drv

[Guillaume Ranquet]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:05, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 04/10/2022 13:55, Guillaume Ranquet wrote:
>>> No. You said what the code is doing. I think I understand this. You
>>> still do not need more compatibles. Your sentence did not clarify it
>>> because it did not answer at all to question "why". Why do you need it?
>>>
>>> Sorry, the change looks not correct.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Krzysztof
>>>
>>
>> I need a new compatible to adress the specifics of mt8195 in the mtk_dpi driver,
>> the change is in this series with:
>> [PATCH v1 16/17] drm/mediatek: dpi: Add mt8195 hdmi to DPI driver [1]
>
>But you do not have specifics of mt8195. I wrote it in the beginning.
>
>>
>> I then need to add that compatible to the "list" here in mtk_drm_drv.
>
>No, you do not... I checked the driver and there is no single need... or
>convince me you need.
>
>> I don't see a way around this unless I rewrite the way mtk_drm_drv works?
>
>Why rewrite? You have all compatibles in place.
>
>>
>> Maybe if I declare a new compatible that is generic to all mediatek
>> dpi variants?
>
>You were asked to use fallback. Don't create some fake fallbacks. Use
>existing ones.
>
>> and have all the dts specify the node with both the generic dpi and
>> the specific compatible?
>>
>> dpi@xxx {
>> 	compatible = "mediatek,dpi", "mediatek,mt8195-dpi";
>
>I don't know what's this but certainly looks odd. Some wild-card
>compatible in front (not fallback) and none are documented.
>
>> 	...
>> }
>>
>> Then I can "collapse" all the dpi related nodes in mtk_drm_drv under
>> "mediatek,dpi" ?
>>
>> I guess would have to do the change for all other components that are needed in
>> mtk_drm_drv (mmsys, aal, ccor, color, dither, dsc, gamma, mutex...).
>>
>> That's the only trivial way I can think of implementing this with the
>> current status
>> of the mtk_drm stack.
>>
>> Do you have any other ideas in mind?
>
>Use fallback of compatible device. That's the common pattern.
>Everywhere, Mediatek as well.
>

I'm unsure about what a "fallback of compatible device" is.
But from what I can gather, you'd have me write the dts as:

dpi@xxx {
	compatible = "mediatek,mt8195-dpi", "mediatek,mt2701-dpi";
	...
}

so that the mtk_dpi driver will use the specific mt8195 dpi config and
the mtk_drm driver will fallback to mt2701 to find the compatible it needs.

Would you like me to use this pattern for all the other compatibles declared
in the mtk_ddp_comp_ids array in separate patches?

Thx,
Guillaume.

>Best regards,
>Krzysztof
>