[PATCH 1/7] drm/msm/dpu: drop VBIF_NRT handling
From: Dmitry Baryshkov
Date: Fri Feb 27 2026 - 13:37:09 EST
The second VBIF instance, VBIF_NRT, is only used for the separate inline
rotator block. It is unsupported by the DPU driver and will require a
separate driver (or separate instance of the DPU device).
The only possible user of VBIF_NRT is writeback on MSM8996, however
writeback on that platform is currently unsupported and it's not worth
keeping extra complexity for the sake of that single legacy platform.
None of the hardware catalogs entries actually declare VBIF_NRT, so it
is left in its default state.
Stop pretending that DPU driver cares about VBIF_NRT and drop it.
Reported-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_hw_mdss.h | 1 -
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_kms.c | 14 --------------
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_vbif.c | 2 --
3 files changed, 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_hw_mdss.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_hw_mdss.h
index 046b683d4c66..f3cb827034cc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_hw_mdss.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_hw_mdss.h
@@ -286,7 +286,6 @@ enum dpu_wd_timer {
enum dpu_vbif {
VBIF_RT,
- VBIF_NRT,
VBIF_MAX,
};
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_kms.c
index 61d7e65469b3..16f129625795 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_kms.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_kms.c
@@ -1357,14 +1357,6 @@ static int dpu_kms_mmap_mdp5(struct dpu_kms *dpu_kms)
return ret;
}
- dpu_kms->vbif[VBIF_NRT] = msm_ioremap_mdss(mdss_dev,
- dpu_kms->pdev,
- "vbif_nrt_phys");
- if (IS_ERR(dpu_kms->vbif[VBIF_NRT])) {
- dpu_kms->vbif[VBIF_NRT] = NULL;
- DPU_DEBUG("VBIF NRT is not defined");
- }
-
return 0;
}
@@ -1390,12 +1382,6 @@ static int dpu_kms_mmap_dpu(struct dpu_kms *dpu_kms)
return ret;
}
- dpu_kms->vbif[VBIF_NRT] = msm_ioremap_quiet(pdev, "vbif_nrt");
- if (IS_ERR(dpu_kms->vbif[VBIF_NRT])) {
- dpu_kms->vbif[VBIF_NRT] = NULL;
- DPU_DEBUG("VBIF NRT is not defined");
- }
-
return 0;
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_vbif.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_vbif.c
index 2a551e455aa3..ede38b3c6f8c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_vbif.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_vbif.c
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ static const char *dpu_vbif_name(enum dpu_vbif idx)
switch (idx) {
case VBIF_RT:
return "VBIF_RT";
- case VBIF_NRT:
- return "VBIF_NRT";
default:
return "??";
}
--
2.47.3