Re: [RFC PATCH v10 6/9] media: tegra: Add Tegra210 Video input driver

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Sun Apr 26 2020 - 01:04:49 EST


26.04.2020 07:47, Sowjanya Komatineni ÐÐÑÐÑ:
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>> Although, you're right that tegra_drm is compiled as a single module.
>> That's not good, I'm actually not sure now whether it is possible to
>> modularize host1x drivers properly without changing the whole host1x bus.
>
> We already went thru driver structure changes during earlier versions
> and internal feedbacks.
>
> Not sure of restructuring again now. Also reg wastage of space, tegra
> specific implementation is not huge also for T186 and later we have
> RTCPU firmware that driver communicates with and it light weight. Based
> on internal discussion, no upstream support for prior Tegra210.

NVIDIA doesn't support older SoCs in downstream, but this doesn't apply
to the upstream where anyone could write a driver.

> So, probably what we have regarding structure is ok except video formats
> I will move to Tegra210 and change defines to use Tegra210 prefix.

Seems so.