OMAPDSS: DT support v3

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How about do a pull request for just the .dts changes against current omap-for-v3.15/dt branch ASAP for me so I can pull it in? That is assuming that just the .dts changes alone won't break anything.

Unfortunately they do break. At least pinmuxing is moved from the global definitions to be handled by the respective display drivers, and there are some regulator_name hacks that the DT patches remove.

OK. Will that cause regressions for omap3 as that's still also booting in legacy mode?

No, I don't think so. The problems revolve around the pdata-quirks, with current DSS support when booting with DT. It's rather difficult to split the series so that it could be merged freely in multiple parts.

If I split the series into three parts: 1) .dts changes 2) main DSS DT changes 3) removal of pdata-quirks etc, I run into problems. Both 1) and
2) work fine individually, but when both are merged, there are two competing systems, the proper DT stuff and the pdata-quirks stuff. And I haven't found out a simple way to manage that, as the whole display support is split into multiple independent devices.

One option would be to combine 1) and 3), so that when they are merged, there would be proper DT data, and the pdata-quirks would be removed so that it wouldn't be messing everything up. But that would, of course, mean that after merging 1+3, the display wouldn't work on those boards that rely on pdata-quirks, until 2) is merged.

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I think those changes could be removed from my patches, and then added back later when everything else has been merged.

Or you could have a second branch that also merges in omap-for-v3.15/dt branch that you can send later towards the merge window after the arm-soc changes have been merged. If you want to do that, then feel free to add my ack also for the .dts changes:

Acked-by Tony Lindgren <[email protected]>

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If however those changes get postponed to v3.16, it's best that you'll redo the branch as I'm sure we'll have other merge issues for v3.16.

Ok. At the moment I feel that the easiest option would be to keep the DSS DT series as it is, but merge omap-for-v3.15/dt to it and solve the conflicts. I'd keep that branch separate from the fbdev changes, so that I could send the DSS DT pull request later, when arm-soc has been pulled.

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The bigger issue is that suddenly there's lots of discussion about the display DT bindings. If those are not resolved very soon, I guess I have no choice but to again skip the merge window for the DSS DT changes.

OK, some of these more bindings can take easily six months to reach some kind of resolution. You may be able to use TI specific unstable bindings meanwhile if that makese sense.

Yep. I don't know... If the whole port/endpoint system that I currently use is changed totally, it might be painful to support both the TI specific bindings with the old format and the newer format.