On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@bootlin.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:58:48PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:07 PM, Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@bootlin.com> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 02:45:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> Having DRM_SUN4I built-in but DRM_SUN8I_MIXER as a loadable module >> >> results in >> >> a link error, as we try to access a symbol from the sun8i_tcon_top.ko >> >> module: >> >> >> >> ERROR: "sun8i_tcon_top_of_table" >> >> [drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i-drm-hdmi.ko] undefined! >> >> ERROR: "sun8i_tcon_top_of_table" [drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i-drm.ko] >> >> undefined! >> >> >> >> This solves the problem by making DRM_SUN8I_MIXER a 'bool' symbol, >> >> building >> >> the sun8i_tcon_top module the same way as the core sun4i-drm module >> >> whenever >> >> DRM_SUN8I_MIXER is enabled, or not building it at all otherwise. >> >> >> >> Alternatively, we could always build sun8i_tcon_top.ko along with >> >> sun4-drm.ko >> >> and detach it from the mixer module, I could not tell which way is more >> >> appropriate here. >> > >> > If that's easily doable, then yeah, that would be the preferred option >> > I guess. Jernej? Chen-Yu? Any opinion on this? >> >> Yeah, that definitely works for me. Having TCON TOP being part of the core >> sun4i-drm makes more sense. The TCON code will likely call into it later on >> when Jernej adds the encoder muxing code. >> >> I wonder if we shouldn't just build the whole display engine code, excluding >> downstream encoders (HDMI, DSI, TV) into one module. That would also fix the >> issue that DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND has to be built-in if DRM_SUN4I is built-in. >> That might be overkill though, given that one day we should be able to get >> rid of the frontend check. > > We can't really do that (or at least without rewriting a significant > part of the driver), since we can have only one > module_init/module_exit function per module, and we have one > per-hardware block.
Right. That would require some serious plumbing to register all the drivers. ChenYu _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
