On 20/04/2021 17:13, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On 16/04/2021 13:38, Neil Armstrong wrote: >> On 16/04/2021 11:58, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >>> Hi Neil, >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:27:35AM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote: >>>> This adds DW-HDMI driver a glue option to disable loading of the CEC sub-driver. >>>> >>>> On some SoCs, the CEC functionality is enabled in the IP config bits, but the >>>> CEC bus is non-functional like on Amlogic SoCs, where the CEC config bit is set >>>> but the DW-HDMI CEC signal is not connected to a physical pin, leading to some >>>> confusion when the DW-HDMI CEC controller can't communicate on the bus. >>> >>> If we can't trust the CEC config bit, would it be better to not use it >>> at all, and instead let each platform glue logic tell whether to enable >>> CEC or not ? >> >> Actually, the CEC config bit is right, the HW exists and should be functional, but >> this bit doesn't tell if the CEC signal is connected to something. >> >> This lies in the IP integration, like other bits under the "amlogic,meson-*-dw-hdmi" >> umbrella. >> >> The first attempt was by Hans using DT, but adding a property in DT for a vendor >> specific compatible doesn't make sense. Another idea would be to describe the >> CEC signal endpoint like we do for video signal, but I think this is out of scope and >> this solution is much simpler and straightforward, and it's more an exception than >> a general use case to solve. > > While a DT property might not make sense in this particular case, I still > believe that it is a perfectly valid approach in general: whether or not > the CEC pin is connected is at the hardware level decision, it is not > something that software can detect. If the designer of the board didn't > connect it, then the only place you can define that is in the device tree. Agreed, we need to define a smart way to declare CEC bus relationship in DT, the side effect would be to handle this particular case. > > Anyway, for meson I am fine with this solution. At least it prevents creating > a non-functioning cec device. So for this series: > > Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Applying this serie to drm-misc-next Neil > > Regards, > > Hans > >> >> Neil >> >>> >>>> Jernej Skrabec (1): >>>> drm/bridge/synopsys: dw-hdmi: Add an option to suppress loading CEC >>>> driver >>>> >>>> Neil Armstrong (1): >>>> drm/meson: dw-hdmi: disable DW-HDMI CEC sub-driver >>>> >>>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c | 2 +- >>>> drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_dw_hdmi.c | 1 + >>>> include/drm/bridge/dw_hdmi.h | 2 ++ >>>> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dri-devel mailing list >> dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel >> > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
