Re: [PATCH] drm/msm/mdp5: drop support for MSM8998, SDM630 and SDM660

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 12/11/25 2:25 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> Currently MDP5 3.x (MSM8998, SDM630 and SDM660) platforms are support
> by both DPU and MDP5 drivers. Support for them in the DPU driver is
> mature enough, so it's no longer sensible to keep them enabled in the
> MDP5 driver. Not to mention that MSM8998 never used an MDP5 compatible
> string. Drop support for the MDP5 3.x genration inside the MDP5
> driver and migrate those to the DPU driver only.
> 
> Note: this will break if one uses the DT generated before v6.3 as they
> had only the generic, "qcom,mdp5" compatible string for SDM630 and
> SDM660. However granted that we had two LTS releases inbetween I don't
> think it is an issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---

I wouldn't be surprised if the DPU description was "better" too, since
they've gone through rounds of reviews

FWIW

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>

Konrad