[U-Boot] [RFC] Migrating iMX LCDIF drivers to Driver Model

[Peng Fan]

HI Igor,

> 
> Marek, Peng,
> 
> Writing to you as you were the main contributors to U-boot mxsfb driver
> implementation (i.MX23/i.MX28 LCDIF driver).
> 
> I was about to start working on it's migration to DM (currently mxsfb is being
> used on our SoM Colibri iMX7S/D), but found it a bit out-dated (no one
> introduced any changes for the last 5 years) and maybe it's really does make a
> sense to fetch and port the latest one from the Linux mainline (in a sake of
> avoiding divergence in implementation and continue fetching future updates
> from the Linux kernel).
> 
> So there are 2 questions spinning in my mind:
> 1) In case if you are maybe aware, if there were any intentions to do this
> migration before?  (maybe someone asked similar questions or even send
> some patches, but didn't manage to upstream that; or did similar stuff in some
> downstream U-boot forks, whatever). Unfortunately I can't any information
> regarding this in U-boot ML archives .

I do not have plan to work on this recently.

> 
> 2) Will it be OK if I introduce a brand new mxsfb driver (ported from Linux),
> which will be used only when U-boot is built with CONFIG_DM_VIDEO
> enabled? Existing mxsfb will be left as it is, so I can be removed easily when
> full migration to DM is done for all boards that are using this driver.

You mean porting drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/ to U-Boot?

Regards,
Peng.

> 
> Simon,
> 
> Could you also provide you feedback for 2 (if introducing a brand new
> dm-enabled driver is a good idea), thanks!
> 
> Thanks in advance for you comments/suggestions!
> 
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