Thread (61 messages) 61 messages, 6 authors, 2014-07-21

[RESEND PATCH v3 06/11] drm: add DT bindings documentation for atmel-hlcdc-dc driver

From: Thierry Reding <hidden>
Date: 2014-07-15 10:31:37
Also in: dri-devel, linux-devicetree, linux-pwm

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:06:19PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:05:43 +0200 Thierry Reding [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 06:42:59PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/atmel-hlcdc-dc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/atmel-hlcdc-dc.txt
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+The Atmel HLCDC Display Controller is subdevice of the HLCDC MFD device.
+See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt for more details.
I think it's better to refer to these using relative filenames. When the
device tree bindings are moved out of the kernel tree, they may no
longer use the same hierarchy.
Sure.
By relative path you mean ../../mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt or just
mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt ?
I think the former is more explicit.
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+ - atmel,panel: Should contain a phandle with 2 parameters.
+   The first cell is a phandle to a DRM panel device
+   The second cell encodes the RGB mode, which can take the following values:
+   * 0: RGB444
+   * 1: RGB565
+   * 2: RGB666
+   * 3: RGB888
These are properties of the panel and should be obtained from the panel
directly rather than an additional cell in this specifier.
Okay.
What's the preferred way of doing this ?
What about defining an rgb-mode property in the panel node.
There's .bpc in struct drm_display_info, I suspect that it could be used
for this. Alternatively, maybe we could extend the list of color formats
that go into drm_display_info.color_formats? RGB444 is already covered.

Also, like Laurent said, this shouldn't go into the device tree, since
it's already implied by the panel's compatible value, so we'd be
duplicating information.
BTW, have you received this series [1] adding support for the LCD panel
I'm testing this driver with.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/5/612
I don't think I've seen it in my inbox, let me check my archives.
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+   The third cell encodes specific flags describing LCD signals configuration
+   (see Atmel's datasheet for a full description of these fields):
+   * bit 0: HSPOL: Horizontal Synchronization Pulse Polarity
+   * bit 1: VSPOL: Vertical Synchronization Pulse Polarity
+   * bit 2: VSPDLYS: Vertical Synchronization Pulse Start
+   * bit 3: VSPDLYE: Vertical Synchronization Pulse End
+   * bit 4: DISPPOL: Display Signal Polarity
+   * bit 7: DISPDLY: LCD Controller Display Power Signal Synchronization
+   * bit 12: VSPSU: LCD Controller Vertical synchronization Pulse Setup Configuration
+   * bit 13: VSPHO: LCD Controller Vertical synchronization Pulse Hold Configuration
+   * bit 16-20: GUARDTIME: LCD DISPLAY Guard Time
Similarly for most of these: HSPOL and VSPOL seem to correspond to the
DRM_MODE_FLAG_{{P,N},{H,V}}SYNC flags in struct drm_display_mode. And
VSPDLYS as well as VSPDLYE sound like they may be vsync_start and
vsync_end of the same structure.
I agree with HSPOL and VSPOL.
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As for the others, maybe if you could explain what exactly they are we
may be able to find a better fit.
Atmel datasheets include several timing diagrams [2] (chapter "32.6.17
Output Timing Generation" page 603), and I think you will get more
informations from these diagrams than if I try to explain what I
understood ;-).
These look like knobs to tune the signal in a very fine-grained manner.
To be honest, maybe the best way to solve this would be by omitting them
for now and choose some default that's likely to work on most devices.
Does the panel that you use specify how it expects HSYNC to be timed vs.
VSYNC?

Thierry
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