On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 10:08:26 EEST Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:24:42PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > [I got to v2 sooner than expected]
>> >
>> > I have an Atmel sama5d31 hooked up to an lvds encoder and then
>> > on to an lvds panel. Which seems like something that has been
>> > done one or two times before...
>> >
>> > The problem is that the bus_format of the SoC and the panel do
>> > not agree. The SoC driver (atmel-hlcdc) can handle the
>> > rgb444, rgb565, rgb666 and rgb888 bus formats. The hardware is
>> > wired for the rgb565 case. The lvds encoder supports rgb888 on
>> > its input side with the LSB wires for each color simply pulled
>> > down internally in the encoder in my case which means that the
>> > rgb565 bus_format is the format that works best. And the panel
>> > is expecting lvds (vesa-24), which is what the encoder outputs.
>> >
>> > The reason I "blame" the bus_format of the drm_connector is that
>> > with the below DT snippet, things do not work *exactly* due to
>> > that. At least, it starts to work if I hack the panel-lvds driver
>> > to report the rgb565 bus_format instead of vesa-24.
>> >
>> > panel: panel {
>> > compatible = "panel-lvds";
>> >
>> > width-mm = <304>;
>> > height-mm = <228;
>> >
>> > data-mapping = "vesa-24";
>> >
>> > panel-timing {
>> > // 1024x768 @ 60Hz (typical)
>> > clock-frequency = <52140000 65000000 71100000>;
>> > hactive = <1024>;
>> > vactive = <768>;
>> > hfront-porch = <48 88 88>;
>> > hback-porch = <96 168 168>;
>> > hsync-len = <32 64 64>;
>> > vfront-porch = <8 13 14>;
>> > vback-porch = <8 13 14>;
>> > vsync-len = <8 12 14>;
>> > };
>> >
>> > port {
>> > panel_input: endpoint {
>> > remote-endpoint = <&lvds_encoder_output>;
>> > };
>> > };
>> > };
>> >
>> > lvds-encoder {
>> > compatible = "ti,ds90c185", "lvds-encoder";
>> >
>> > ports {
>> > #address-cells = <1>;
>> > #size-cells = <0>;
>> >
>> > port@0 {
>> > reg = <0>;
>> >
>> > lvds_encoder_input: endpoint {
>> > remote-endpoint = <&hlcdc_output>;
>> > };
>> > };
>> >
>> > port@1 {
>> > reg = <1>;
>> >
>> > lvds_encoder_output: endpoint {
>> > remote-endpoint = <&panel_input>;
>> > };
>> > };
>> > };
>> > };
>> >
>> > But, instead of perverting the panel-lvds driver with support
>> > for a totally fake non-lvds bus_format, I intruduce an API that allows
>> > display controller drivers to query the required bus_format of any
>> > intermediate bridges, and match up with that instead of the formats
>> > given by the drm_connector. I trigger this with this addition to the
>> >
>> > lvds-encoder DT node:
>> > interface-pix-fmt = "rgb565";
>> >
>> > Naming is hard though, so I'm not sure if that's good?
>> >
>> > I threw in the first patch, since that is the actual lvds encoder
>> > I have in this case.
>> >
>> > Suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Took a quick look, feels rather un-atomic. And there's beend discussing
>> for other bridge related state that we might want to track (like the full
>> adjusted_mode that might need to be adjusted at each stage in the chain).
>> So here's my suggestions:
>>
>> - Add an optional per-bridge internal state struct using the support in
>>
>> https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/gpu/drm-kms.html#handling-driver-privat
>> e-state
>>
>> Yes it says "driver private", but since bridge is just helper stuff
>> that's all included. "driver private" == "not exposed as uapi" here.
>> Include all the usual convenience wrappers to get at the state for a
>> bridge.
>>
>> - Then stuff your bus_format into that new drm_bridge_state struct.
>>
>> - Add a new bridge callback atomic_check, which gets that bridge state as
>> parameter (similar to all the other atomic_check functions).
>>
>> This way we can even handle the bus_format dynamically, through the atomic
>> framework your bridge's atomic_check callback can look at the entire
>> atomic state (both up and down the chain if needed), it all neatly fits
>> into atomic overall and it's much easier to extend.
>
> While I think we'll eventually need bridge states, I don't think that's need
> yet. The bus formats reported by this patch series are static. We're not
> talking about the currently configured format for a bridge, but about the list
> of supported formats. This is similar to the bus_formats field present in the
> drm_display_info structure. There is thus in my opinion no need to interface
> this with atomic until we need to track the current format (and I think that
> will indeed happen at some point, but I don't think Peter needs this feature
> for now). That's why I've told Peter that I would like a bridge API to report
> the information and haven't requested a state-based implementation.
If it's static, why a dynamic callback? Just add it to struct
drm_bridge, require it's filled out before registering the bridge,
done.
-Daniel
>
>> Please also cc Laurent Pinchart on this.
>>
>> > Changes since v1 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/17/221
>> > - Add a proper bridge API to query the bus_format instead of abusing
>> > the ->get_modes part of the code. This is cleaner but requires
>> > changes to all display controller drivers wishing to participate.
>> > - Add patch to adjust the atmel-hlcdc driver according to the above.
>> > - Hook the new info into the bridge local to the lvds-encoder instead
>> > of messing about with new interfaces for the panel-bridge driver.
>> > - Add patch with a DT parsing function of bus_formats in a central place.
>> > - Rephrase the addition of ti,ds90c185 to the lvds-transmitter binding.
>> >
>> > Peter Rosin (5):
>> > dt-bindings: display: bridge: lvds-transmitter: add ti,ds90c185
>> > drm: bridge: add API to query the expected input formats of bridges
>> > drm: of: add display bus-format parser
>> > drm: bridge: lvds-encoder: allow specifying the input bus format
>> > drm/atmel-hlcdc: take bridges into account when selecting output
>> > format
>> >
>> > .../bindings/display/bridge/lvds-transmitter.txt | 14 ++++-
>> > .../devicetree/bindings/display/bus-format.txt | 35 +++++++++++++
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c | 49 +++++++++++++++--
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lvds-encoder.c | 25 +++++++++
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c | 32 ++++++++++++
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++
>> > include/drm/drm_bridge.h | 18 +++++++
>> > include/drm/drm_of.h | 9 ++++
>> > 8 files changed, 237 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>> > create mode 100644
>> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bus-format.txt
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart
>
>
>
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