This is an RFC - to get some responses on the overall design.
The code builds but has not yet been tested on any HW.
Before investing more time into this I would like some feedback
if this is the right way forward or a different design should
be pursued.
The problem to solve is that I have a propriatary ARM based board
with a display that is connected using a parallel bus.
The display is capable of showing graphics
so it is more advanced than what is found in auxdisplay/
I know there are others using a display connected
usign a parallel data bus, so this is not a unique problem
for my board alone. But I do not expect many users as
any modern design likely uses SPI or similar.
The old (proprietary) approach was to implement a char driver
and then let some 3rd party lib use the char driver to write to the
display.
The goal is to move to a more modern world where I expect
to have a simple Qt based program running that can
be used for a few simple things.
(I do not expect any high performance and do not need it).
Implementation:
A pardata bus is implemented.
It uses a platform_driver to hook into the DT.
When probed the pardatabus driver creates pardata devices
for all child nodes in the tree.
Within tinydrm the pardata support is used to implement
a driver for the display I have (Winstar wg160160).
A library module is used to implement the more basic
things allowing us to have a more simple driver,
and thus making it simpler to add new drivers.
The implmentation uses array support in gpiolib
to try to have some performance on screen updates.
TODO:
- Test on HW
- Add locking so there can be more than one user on the bus
- Improve pardata.rst documentation
- Add support for a sparkfun parallel data display
(To verify that the library is generic)
- I may add a class if I see the need
- Likewise I may add sysfs attributes if there is a need for it
Any comments appreciated!
Sam
Sam Ravnborg (5):
dt-bindings: add parallel data bus (pardata)
pardata: new bus for parallel data access
tinydrm: add support for parallel data displays
dt-bindings: add winstar,wg160160 display bindings
tinydrm: add winstar wg160160 driver
.../bindings/display/winstar,wg160160.txt | 53 +++
.../bindings/pardata/parallel-data-bus.txt | 60 +++
Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/driver-api/pardata.rst | 60 +++
MAINTAINERS | 14 +
drivers/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/tinydrm/Kconfig | 13 +
drivers/gpu/drm/tinydrm/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/gpu/drm/tinydrm/pardata-dbi.c | 417 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/tinydrm/wg160160.c | 298 +++++++++++++++
drivers/pardata/Kconfig | 17 +
drivers/pardata/Makefile | 5 +
drivers/pardata/pardata.c | 282 ++++++++++++++
include/drm/tinydrm/pardata-dbi.h | 257 +++++++++++++
include/linux/pardata.h | 138 +++++++
16 files changed, 1620 insertions(+)
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