[PATCH V6 2/2] video: drm: exynos: Add device tree support

2012/9/26 Mark Brown [off-list ref]:

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:03:44AM +0900, Inki Dae wrote:

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2012/9/25 Laurent Pinchart [off-list ref]:

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Aren't DT bindings considered as an ABI, and required to be supported more or
less forever ? If you merge this DT binding you'll have to keep supporting it.
That's why DT bindings should not be rushed in.

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is ABI required for DT binding?  I know DT binding parses just lcd
timing data from device tree file so ABI isn't needed. but when it
comes to DT, I'm novice yet so there may be my missing point. could
you tell me why DT bindings are considered as an ABI? if there is my
missing point, will consider it again.

It's supposed to be possible to ship a DT with a board and then boot any
OS or OS version on the board.  If the meaning of the DT keeps changing
then this becomes impossible, you need to keep changing the DT when you
change the thing that parses it (rendering the whole exercise pointless).

thank you for your comments. got it. DT is built as an binary(dtb) and
the dtb file should be re-used without any modifications. will keep
this patch until the videomode helper will be merged to mainline so
that this could be modified based on videomode helper later.

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