Hi,

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 06:54:11PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> 06.11.2016, 18:13, "Hans de Goede" <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 06-11-16 04:35, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >>  Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>  I spent a bit of time adding DRM support for the A23 yesterday.
> >>  Icenowy successfully got DRM working for the A33 Q8 tablets.
> >>
> >>  It occurred to me today that we have 2 types of panels for the
> >>  A33 Q8 tablets, one is 800x480 and the other is 1024x600. However
> >>  we are currently sharing the same dts file for both, and only
> >>  U-boot knows about the different resolutions.
> >>
> >>  I see 2 ways to fix this. One would be to provide a separate
> >>  dts file for the 1024x600 variant. The other would be to get
> >>  U-boot to patch the dts file.
> >>
> >>  Either way would require users upgrading U-boot, or at least
> >>  their boot scripts in the first case, though.
> >>
> >>  Any ideas?
> >
> > Since we already have 2 u-boot configs for this having 2 dts files
> > seems like the best solution to me.
> 
> Maybe for compatibility we need 3 dts files...
> 
> 1. Q8 dts : everything except display (For users migrated from the old 
> single-dt time)
> 2. Q8 800x480 dts : #include <Q8 dts>, /panel/compatible = "urt,umsh-8596md-t"
>   /* This compatible is what Chen-Yu used in sun5i-q8, and I used it also on 
> my A33 Q8 */
> 3. Q8 1024x600 dts : #include <Q8 dts>, /panel/compatible = foo

I'm not sure why we need both actually.

Even if the resolutions are the same, chances are the panel won't be,
and will have different timings. I guess your plan is simply to use
different compatible, then we don't really need two different device
trees in the first place, do we?

Maxime

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