Re: [PATCH 9/9] drm/bridge: imx: Add i.MX93 MIPI DSI support

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On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 8:28 AM Ying Liu <victor.liu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jagan,
>
> On Monday, July 17, 2023 2:44 PM Jagan Teki <jagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:44 AM Liu Ying <victor.liu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Freescale i.MX93 SoC embeds a Synopsys Designware MIPI DSI host
> > > controller and a Synopsys Designware MIPI DPHY.  Some configurations
> > > and extensions to them are controlled by i.MX93 media blk-ctrl.
> > >
> > > Add a DRM bridge for i.MX93 MIPI DSI by using existing DW MIPI DSI
> > > bridge helpers and implementing i.MX93 MIPI DSI specific extensions.
> >
> > I think the better way would add compatibility to be part of existing
> > dw-mipi-dsi.c with specific driver data. This way it avoids all the
> > platform-related helpers(extensions) and makes the driver generic to
> > all SoCs which use DW DSI IP. It would be a straightforward change as
> > the imx93 drm pipeline already supports bridge topology.
>
> The platform-related stuff is handed over to dw-mipi-dsi.c via struct
> dw_mipi_dsi_plat_data as an argument of dw_mipi_dsi_probe().  It looks
> ok for vendor drivers to call dw_mipi_dsi_probe() to set the platform-related
> information(rockchip, meson and stm do that), like pdata.phy_ops and
> pdata.host_ops.

I understand this topology of having soc-platform drivers with
dw-mipi-dsi bridge. What I'm suggesting is to not add a soc-platform
driver for imx93 instead add add support directly on dw-mipi-dsi
bridge.

>
> dw-mipi-dsi.c is generic w/wo this patch series.
>
> Can you elaborate more about adding compatibility to be part of existing
> dw-mipi-dsi.c with specific driver data?  I don't see clear approach to do
> that.

Please check the above comments, an example of samsung-dsim.c

Thanks,
Jagan.




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