[PATCH 02/14] video: nokia_rx51: Drop obsolete video code

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Jan 23 16:54:24 CET 2022


Hi Pali,

On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 07:57, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 23 January 2022 07:36:22 Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Pali,
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 07:08, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > + Maemo
> > >
> > > On Sunday 23 January 2022 07:04:03 Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > Drop this code which uses a header that is about to be deleted.
> > >
> > > And what / where is the replacement?
> >
> > This is DM_VIDEO. There are quite a few example drivers in
> > drivers/video - perhaps the mxsfb.c one is a reasonable example. See
> > the top of video_uclass.c for how frame-buffer allocation works.
>
> I have already WIP patches for usage of video-uclass.c but because
> reviewing of N900 patches is slow, I have not sent them yet.

Who is reviewing them? If you send the patches I can review them and
we can get them applied for this release.

>
> So could you please do NOT remove N900 support? I would really
> appreciative for reviewing pending patches instead of sending patches
> with board removal.

This is not a board removal, just dropping a feature.

>
> Note that there is some issue with video_post_bind(), it throws
> false-positive error "Video device '%s' cannot allocate frame buffer
> memory" with "return -ENOSPC". If I remove that "return -ENOSPC" it is
> working fine.

Do you need U-Boot to allocate the frame buffer. If so, this is likely
because your driver is not bound before relocation. See the comment
around that message in the code.

Regards,
Simon


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