[PATCH 0/2] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: add HDMI device tree nodes
From: Barzin Lotfabadi <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-04 21:33:45
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Hi all, These two patches add the device tree nodes needed for HDMI output on the Allwinner H616 family. Tested on an Orange Pi Zero 3 (H618, 4GB), which drives a 1920x1080@60Hz desktop with these applied. Mainline already has DE33 mixer support in the sun4i driver, but there are no display nodes at all in sun50i-h616.dtsi, so nothing probes. Ryan Walklin's "arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: add LCD timing controller and display engine support" series adds the display engine, bus, mixer and TCON nodes, but states that HDMI output is not provided. These patches are the missing HDMI half. Every register address, clock index and reset line was read out of the vendor device tree shipped with the board and translated to the mainline dt-bindings macros; the clock and reset numbering was verified identical between the vendor and mainline CCU headers before substitution. Two things I would appreciate guidance on: 1. Patch 1 currently also adds the display engine, bus, mixer and TCON nodes, because Ryan's series has not landed and the HDMI nodes need something to attach to. If his series is merged first, I am happy to respin this as an HDMI-only delta on top of it. That is probably the right shape; I did not want to post a series that applies to nothing in the meantime. 2. These nodes alone are not sufficient for a picture. Two driver changes are also needed: an H616 variant in sun8i_hdmi_phy.c (only a83t/h3/r40/a64/h6 exist today), and setting the TCON pad select bit in sun4i_tcon.c. Both exist in the Armbian sunxi-6.12 tree, authored by The-going. I have deliberately not included them here, because I cannot provide a Signed-off-by on another developer's work. If someone in a position to carry those forward would like to, I am happy to help test. Without them these nodes probe but produce no output. checkpatch is clean apart from one 103-column warning on a remote-endpoint line in patch 1; the identical construct at the same width already exists in sun50i-h6.dtsi:183, so I left it matching the surrounding convention. One implementation note worth recording, since it cost a boot cycle: the DE33 mixer's three register regions must be named "layers", "top" and "display". The driver fetches the latter two by name, so a wrong name here surfaces as "invalid resource (null)" and a -EINVAL bind failure several layers away from the cause. Result on the board, with the two driver patches also applied: sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1100000.mixer (ops sun8i_mixer_ops) sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 6510000.tcon-top (ops sun8i_tcon_top_ops) sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 6515000.lcd-controller (ops sun4i_tcon_ops) sun8i-dw-hdmi 6000000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller v2.12a with HDCP sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 6000000.hdmi (ops sun8i_dw_hdmi_ops) [drm] Initialized sun4i-drm 1.0.0 for display-engine on minor 0 with the connector reading "connected", EDID read correctly from the sink, and 1920x1080 among the reported modes. Full boot logs, the decompiled vendor device tree the nodes were derived from, and a photo of the running desktop are at: https://github.com/BarzinL/h616-hdmi-mainline Based on mainline a500db7819c5. Barzin Lotfabadi (2): arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: add display engine and HDMI nodes arm64: dts: allwinner: orangepi-zero3: enable HDMI output arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616.dtsi | 191 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../dts/allwinner/sun50i-h618-orangepi-zero3.dts | 25 +++ 2 files changed, 216 insertions(+) -- 2.51.0