Re: [PATCH v6 21/23] drm: rockchip: Add VOP2 driver

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 06:54:35PM +0800, Andy Yan wrote:
> Hi Sascha:
> 
> On 2/24/22 16:19, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 03:35:12PM +0800, Andy Yan wrote:
> > > Hi Sascha:
> > > 
> > > On 2/18/22 16:00, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 11:50:32AM +0800, Andy Yan wrote:
> > > > > Hi Sascha:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 2/17/22 22:06, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> > > > > > Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2022, 14:58:23 CET schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> > > > > > > Hi Andy,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Please trim the context in your answers to the relevant parts, it makes
> > > > > > > it easier to find the things you said.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 08:00:11PM +0800, Andy Yan wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi Sascha:
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > > > +	drm_for_each_encoder_mask(encoder, crtc->dev, crtc_state->encoder_mask) {
> > > > > > > > > +		struct rockchip_encoder *rkencoder = to_rockchip_encoder(encoder);
> > > > > > > > > +		struct device_node *node, *parent;
> > > > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > > > +		parent = of_get_parent(rkencoder->port);
> > > > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > > > +		for_each_endpoint_of_node(parent, node) {
> > > > > > > > Is there any hurt directly use our downstream vendor kernel method here: use
> > > > > > > > vcstate->output_if set by encoder driver to get which interface we should
> > > > > > > > enable here?
> > > > > > > There is no vcstate->output_if in mainline currently. Ok, we could add
> > > > > > > that. The other thing is that there are multiple HDMI interfaces and
> > > > > > > the id of the HDMI encoder is encoded into output_if. Downstream kernel
> > > > > > > adds OF aliases to the HDMI ports. I didn't want to go that route
> > > > > > > because it doesn't seem to be very elegant to me.
> > > > > aliases is a very comm strategy in device tree world.
> > > > Yes, but not for retrieving bit offsets into registers. Normally aliases
> > > > can be changed at board level without confusing drivers.
> > > > 
> > > > > And your method also
> > > > > add need additional dt binds to define RK3568_VOP2_EP_xxx
> > > > > > > > You method is ok with device tree,  but it tied up this driver to device
> > > > > > > > tree, we are now tring to extend vop2 driver work with ACPI, so we hope this
> > > > > > > > driver can be much more flexible.
> > > > > > > The current rockchip drm driver seems to be pretty much tied to device
> > > > > > > tree. There are probably many other places that need parallel paths for
> > > > > > > ACPI support, I think we can delay this particular part until we see the
> > > > > > > whole picture. In the end we can still retrieve the output_if
> > > > > > > information differently with ACPI while still retrieving the information
> > > > > > > from the device tree the way we are doing currently.
> > > > > The current driver only reference device thee at driver initial, we not wrap
> > > > > 
> > > > > device tree related things in other parts, so if we extend it to support
> > > > > ACPI,
> > > > > 
> > > > > we just need modify the initial code, this make things easier.
> > > > The device tree parsing could be moved out of vop2_crtc_atomic_enable()
> > > > into some initialisation path. In the end it's static information,
> > > > there's no need to do it repeatedly in atomic_enable.
> > > This could be one solution, the repeatedly parsing device tree in
> > > atomic_enable is also my concern.
> > > 
> > > In addition, there are 2 HDMI, 2 eDP, 2 MIPI on the coming rk3588, so it's
> > > better to consider give position
> > > 
> > > for HDMI1, EDP1, in  include/dt-bindings/soc/rockchip,vop2.h
> > The defines are rk3568 specific. rk3588 would use a set of rk3588
> > specific defines along with a rk3588_set_intf_mux().
> 
> 
> Why not try to share these RK3568_VOP2_EP_XXX across all vop2 even vop based
> rockchip socs?
> 
> If make these definition RK3568 specific, we need copy all of it and change
> 3568 to 3588 than add HDMI1, HDMI0, EDP1,EDP0
> 
> when rk3588 coming, if there is another rk35xx, we need to the same thing
> again.... but they share same code logic and number,

I can make the defines RK3568 agnostic and use ROCKCHIP_ as prefix. The
actual numbers don't matter much, so we can add new interfaces or
instances thereof at the end with the next free number.

Sascha

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