On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 09:36:27PM +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> Hello Liu,

Hello Francesco,

> 
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 11:50:09AM +0800, Liu Ying wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This patch series aims to add Freescale i.MX8qxp Display Controller support.
> > 
> > The controller is comprised of three main components that include a blit
> > engine for 2D graphics accelerations, display controller for display output
> > processing, as well as a command sequencer.
> 
> ...
> 
> > 
> > To follow up i.MX8qxp TRM, I changed the controller name to "Display 
> > Controller"
> > instead of the previous "DPU".  "DPU" is only mentioned in the SoC block
> > diagram and represents the whole display subsystem which includes the 
> > display
> > controller and prefech engines, etc.
> > 
> > With an additional patch[1] for simple-pm-bus.c, this series facilitates
> > testing a LVDS panel on i.MX8qxp MEK.
> > 
> > Please do NOT merge patch 14-19.  They are only used to facilitate testing
> > the LVDS panel.
> 
> What's the plan to conclude this work? What's the latest status?
> I am looking forward to have a way to use the i.MX8QXP display with
> mainline, but to my understanding some required changes on the SOC dtsi
> are not merged.
> 
> Can you help?

I planned to add display controller DT node after prefetch engine support [1]
is picked up so that the prefetch engine could be enabled together with the
display controller.  Just want to avoid a DT that only enables the display
controller or bypasses the prefetch engine.  It makes the display controller
driver simpler.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

> 
> Thanks,
> Francesco
> 

-- 
Regards,
Liu Ying

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