Re: [Patch v4 01/11] dt-bindings: media: s5p-mfc: Add mfcv12 variant

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Nov 01 2023 - 04:24:29 EST


On 26/10/2023 15:31, Aakarsh Jain wrote:
> Hello Krzysztof
>
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>> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: 25 October 2023 18:30
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>> Subject: Re: [Patch v4 01/11] dt-bindings: media: s5p-mfc: Add mfcv12
>> variant
>>
>> On 25/10/2023 12:22, Aakarsh Jain wrote:
>>> Add Tesla FSD MFC(MFC v12) compatible.
>>>
>>> Cc: linux-fsd@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Signed-off-by: Aakarsh Jain <aakarsh.jain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>
>> No changelog and your cover letter does not explain what happened here.
>> Specifically, why did you decide to ignore received tag.
>>
> Last patch series we had two different patches for schema which was one for adding MFCv12 compatible string and other for adding its HW properties.
> In one of the patches you gave reviewed-by tag. Since mfc dt_schema got merged already, and this is relatively new patch so thought of getting reviewed again.
>
> Link to those patches:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/patch/20221011122516.32135-2-aakarsh.jain@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/patch/20221011122516.32135-3-aakarsh.jain@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> if you are ok, I will add your reviewed-by in next patch series.

It is okay to drop Reviewed-by tag, but this should be explicitly
mentioned in the changelog with a reason.

>
>>> .../bindings/media/samsung,s5p-mfc.yaml | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/samsung,s5p-
>> mfc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/samsung,s5p-
>> mfc.yaml
>>> index 084b44582a43..c30eb309f670 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/samsung,s5p-mfc.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/samsung,s5p-mfc.yaml
>>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ properties:
>>> - samsung,mfc-v7 # Exynos5420
>>> - samsung,mfc-v8 # Exynos5800
>>> - samsung,mfc-v10 # Exynos7880
>>> + - tesla,fsd-mfc # Tesla FSD
>>> - items:
>>> - enum:
>>> - samsung,exynos3250-mfc # Exynos3250
>>> @@ -165,6 +166,21 @@ allOf:
>>> minItems: 1
>>> maxItems: 2
>>>
>>> + - if:
>>> + properties:
>>> + compatible:
>>> + contains:
>>> + enum:
>>> + - tesla,fsd-mfc
>>> + then:
>>> + properties:
>>> + clocks:
>>> + maxItems: 1
>>> + clock-names:
>>> + items:
>>> + - const: mfc
>>> + iommus: false
>>
>> That's odd. How so? MFC v12 does not support IOMMU?
>>
> MFC v12 do support IOMMU. But currently it is not enabled in SW (has dependencies on some of the floating dma-mapping patches) and not tested on upstream kernel.

Bindings describe hardware, not software.

> Current patch sets intend to add support for MFCv12 using reserve memory and later patches related to enable iommu will be posted (after resolving the dependencies). So I marked iommu property as false.
> Now what is your suggestion here? Should I keep iommu as false or add memory-region as below?

I expect complete picture of the hardware, not something limited to
current driver, so for sure iommus must be there.

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Best regards,
Krzysztof