Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 4 authors, 2019-08-14

Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 09/15] dt-bindings: display: Add max-res property for mxsfb

From: Robert Chiras <robert.chiras@nxp.com>
Date: 2019-08-14 12:03:58
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Hi Stefann,
On Mi, 2019-08-14 at 13:25 +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
On 2019-08-14 13:14, Robert Chiras wrote:
quoted
Hi Stefan,
On Mi, 2019-08-14 at 13:03 +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
quoted
On 2019-08-14 12:48, Robert Chiras wrote:
quoted

Add new optional property 'max-res', to limit the maximum
supported
resolution by the MXSFB_DRM driver.
I would also mention the reason why we need this.

I guess this needs a vendor prefix as well (fsl,max-res). I also
would
like to have the ack of the device tree folks here.
Rob Herring also aked be about this, and I'll copy here the reply,
with
explanations:

Indeed, this limitation is actually due to bandwidth limitation,
but
the problem is that this limitation comes on i.MX8M (known as
mScale
850D), where the memory bandwidth cannot support: GPU/VPU workload
in
the same time with both DCSS driving 4k@60 and eLCDIF driving 1080p
@60.
Since eLCDIF is a secondary display we though to add the posibility
to
limit it's bandwidth by limiting the resolution.
If you say that more details are needed, I can add them in the
description.
Oh sorry I missed that.

Rob Herring also wrote:
quoted
I suppose what you are after is bandwidth limits? IIRC, there's
already
some bindings expressing such limits. Also, wouldn't you need to
account
for bpp and using the 2nd plane (IIRC that there is one).
I guess the binding he refers to is max-memory-bandwidth, which is
used
in multiple driver already. It makes sense to reuse this property
instead of inventing a new set of property which is also not taking
bpp
into account...
Actually I saw this binding, but I thought it is strictly related to
that driver, where it is documented. Now, that you say this one is used
in many drivers (and recalling that you suggested for my 'max-res' to
add a prefix), I get it now.
The pl111 driver implements this property, it should be fairly easy
to
adopt that code.
Sure, I will do something similar here, too.
--
Stefan


quoted
quoted

--
Stefan
quoted


Signed-off-by: Robert Chiras <robert.chiras@nxp.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mxsfb.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git
a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mxsfb.txt
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mxsfb.txt
index 472e1ea..55e22ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mxsfb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mxsfb.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Required properties:
 Required sub-nodes:
   - port: The connection to an encoder chip.

+Optional properties:
+- max-res:   an array with a maximum of two integers,
representing
the
+             maximum supported resolution, in the form of
+             <maxX>, <maxY>; if one of the item is <0>, the
default
+             driver-defined maximum resolution for that axis
is
used
+
 Example:

      lcdif1: display-controller@2220000 {
Thanks,
Robert
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