Thread (43 messages) 43 messages, 5 authors, 2022-08-09

Re: imx8mm lcdif->dsi->adv7535 no video, no errors

From: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@raspberrypi.com>
Date: 2022-08-03 12:17:56
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Hi Adam

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 at 12:03, Adam Ford [off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 1:20 AM Marco Felsch [off-list ref] wrote:
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On 22-08-02, Adam Ford wrote:

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I did some reading about the internal timing generator.  It appears
that it's required when video formats use fractional bytes, and it's
preconfigured to run at 720p by default, but registers 28h through 37h
configure it for other video modes.
I think there may still be some issues with the DSIM since some of the
clock frequencies are set in the device tree.

From what I can tell, the pixel rate is calculated based on the
By pixel rate you mean the HDMI pixel rate from the ADV? If so then yes.
The ADV has an divider which is already configured by the driver but
meaningless since the driver is lacking of setting the "manual-divider"
bit within the same register.
I was thinking about the pixel clock from the DSI to the ADV.  I did
see the manual-divider bit was missing.  I tried enabling that bit,
but it didn't appear to make much difference.
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burst-clock-frequency and that generates a byte clock.  For 891000000,
the byte clock is 111375000.
The burst-clock-frequency is the hs-clk and DDR. So the MIPI-DSI clock
is burst-clock-frequency/2 which is in your case: 891000000/2 =
445500000. This clock is than divided by 3 within the ADV and you get
your 148500000 pixel clock. This divide by 3 is detected automatically
by the ADV due to the missing bit (see above).
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Modetest timings for 1080p show:

index name refresh (Hz) hdisp hss hse htot vdisp vss vse vtot
  #0 1920x1080 60.00 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 148500
flags: nhsync, nvsync; type: driver


When looking at modetest, there is a clock for 1080p which appears to be 148500.
111375000/148500 = 750.
Please see above.
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The rest of the entries in my table do not divide evenly.  I don;t
know if that explains the lack of display, but it's something to note.
It seems to me that instead of fixing the
samsung,burst-clock-frequency to 891000000, we should make the desired
PLL related to the desired pixel clock so it divides evenly.
Please see above.
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Looking at NXP's kernel, I also noticed that their esc_prescaler is
based on the byte clock divided by 20MHz.  With some small code
changes to get the PLL based on the desired pixel clock instead of
hard-coded,  I was able to set

samsung,burst-clock-frequency = <1500000000>;
This is not correct since the burst-clock-freq. specifies the hs-clock
for the data lanes (see above).
But I don't think the clock should be fixed. I think it should vary as
the resolution changes.  From what I can tell, NXP's DSI code doesn't
hard code this value, but it does appear to cap it at 1.5G.  I did
soom looking into the NXP frequency calculation and it is capable of
adjusting resolutions to some extent and from what I can see the
891MHz clock is only set when 1080p.  At 720p, thier kernel shows the
output frequency at  445.5 MHz.  The way the DSIM is currently
configured, it's fixed at 891MHz, so I don't expect the output feeding
the adv7535 to be correct for the different resolutions.

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samsung,esc-clock-frequency = <20000000>;
This is correct, we also use a esc-clock of 20MHz.
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With these settings and the above mentioned code changes, 1080p still
appears, however when attempting other modes, the display still fails
to load.  I also noticed that the phy ref clock is set to 27MHz
instead of NXP's 12MHz.
That's interesting, I didn't noticed that NXP uses 12 MHz as refclock
but I don't think that this is the problem. Since we have other
converter chips using the bridge driver and they work fine. I still
think that the main problem is within the ADV driver.
Do the other converter chips work fine at different resolutions?
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I attempted to play with that setting, but I couldn't get 1080p to
work again, so I backed it out.

Maybe I am headed in the wrong direction, but I'm going to examine the
P/M/S calculation of the timing on NXP's kernel to see how the DSIM in
this code compares.
I think the pms values are fine.
I compared the P/M/S values between this driver and NXP's and they
calculate different values of PMS when running at 1080P.
NXP @ 1080p:
fout = 891000, fin = 12000, m = 297, p = 2, s = 1, best_delta = 0

This kernel @ 1080p:

PLL freq 891000000, (p 3, m 99, s 0)

at 720P, the NXP Kernel
fout = 445500, fin = 12000, m = 297, p = 2, s = 2, best_delta = 0
(working)

at 720P, this kernel:
PLL freq 891000000, (p 3, m 99, s 0)
hs_clk = 891000000, byte_clk = 111375000, esc_clk = 18562500
(not working)

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If someone who understands the interactions between these different
components has suggestions, I'm willing to run some experiments.
Did managed to get access to the ADV7535 programming guide? This is the
black box here. Let me check if I can provide you a link with our repo
so you can test our current DSIM state if you want.
I do have access to the programming guide, but it's under NDA, but
I'll try to answer questions if I can.
Not meaning to butt in, but I have datasheets for ADV7533 and 7535
from previously looking at these chips.
Mine fairly plainly states:
"The DSI receiver input supports DSI video mode operation only, and
specifically, only supports nonburst mode with sync pulses".
Non-burst mode meaning that the DSI pixel rate MUST be the same as the
HDMI pixel rate.
Section 6.1.1 "DSI Input Modes" of adv7533_hardware_user_s_guide is
even more explicit about the requirement of DSI timing matching

The NXP kernel switching down to an hs_clk of 445.5MHz would therefore
be correct for 720p operation.

If you do program the manual DSI divider register to allow a DSI pixel
rate of 148.5MHz vs HDMI pixel rate of 74.25MHz, you'd be relying on
the ADV753x having at least a half-line FIFO between DSI rx and HDMI
tx to compensate for the differing data rates. I see no reference to
such, and I'd be surprised if it was more than a half dozen pixels to
compensate for the jitter in the cases where the internal timing
generator is mandatory due to fractional bytes.

  Dave
adam
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Regards,
  Marco
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