Re: [PATCH v4 02/12] drm: bridge: Add Samsung DSIM bridge driver

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 2:51 PM Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jagan,
>
> On 13.09.2022 19:29, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 3:34 PM Marek Szyprowski
> > <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 06.09.2022 21:07, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 4:54 PM Marek Szyprowski
> >>> <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> On 02.09.2022 12:47, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >>>>> On 29.08.2022 20:40, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >>>>>> Samsung MIPI DSIM controller is common DSI IP that can be used in
> >>>>>> various
> >>>>>> SoCs like Exynos, i.MX8M Mini/Nano.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In order to access this DSI controller between various platform SoCs,
> >>>>>> the ideal way to incorporate this in the drm stack is via the drm bridge
> >>>>>> driver.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This patch is trying to differentiate platform-specific and bridge
> >>>>>> driver
> >>>>>> code and keep maintaining the exynos_drm_dsi.c code as platform-specific
> >>>>>> glue code and samsung-dsim.c as a common bridge driver code.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Exynos specific glue code is exynos specific te_irq, host_attach, and
> >>>>>>      detach code along with conventional component_ops.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Samsung DSIM is a bridge driver which is common across all
> >>>>>> platforms and
> >>>>>>      the respective platform-specific glue will initialize at the end
> >>>>>> of the
> >>>>>>      probe. The platform-specific operations and other glue calls will
> >>>>>> invoke
> >>>>>>      on associate code areas.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> v4:
> >>>>>> * include Inki Dae in MAINTAINERS
> >>>>>> * remove dsi_driver probe in exynos_drm_drv to support multi-arch build
> >>>>> This breaks Exynos DRM completely as the Exynos DRM driver is not able
> >>>>> to wait until the DSI driver is probed and registered as component.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I will show how to rework this the way it is done in
> >>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_dp.c and
> >>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/analogix/analogix_dp_core.c soon...
> >>>> I've finally had some time to implement such approach, see
> >>>> https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=c5d024d9-a4ab8e4e-c5d1af96-74fe4860001d-625a8324a9797375&q=1&e=489b94d4-84fb-408e-b679-a8d27acf2930&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmszyprow%2Flinux%2Ftree%2Fv6.0-dsi-v4-reworked
> >>>>
> >>>> If you want me to send the patches against your v4 patchset, let me
> >>>> know, but imho my changes are much more readable after squashing to the
> >>>> original patches.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now the driver is fully multi-arch safe and ready for further
> >>>> extensions. I've removed the weak functions, reworked the way the
> >>>> plat_data is used (dropped the patch related to it) and restored
> >>>> exynos-dsi driver as a part of the Exynos DRM drivers/subsystem. Feel
> >>>> free to resend the above as v5 after testing on your hardware. At least
> >>>> it properly works now on all Exynos boards I have, both compiled into
> >>>> the kernel or as modules.
> >>> Thanks. I've seen the repo added on top of Dave patches - does it mean
> >>> these depends on Dave changes as well?
> >> Yes and no. My rework doesn't change anything with this dependency. It
> >> comes from my patch "drm: exynos: dsi: Restore proper bridge chain
> >> order" already included in your series (patch #1). Without it exynos-dsi
> >> driver hacks the list of bridges to ensure the order of pre_enable calls
> >> needed for proper operation. This works somehow with DSI panels on my
> >> test systems, but it has been reported that it doesn't work with a bit
> >> more complex display pipelines. Only that patch depends on the Dave's
> >> patches. If you remove it, you would need to adjust the code in the
> >> exynos_drm_dsi.c and samsung-dsim.c respectively. imho it would be
> >> better to keep it and merge Dave's patches together with dsi changes, as
> >> they are the first real client of it.
> > I think the Dave patches especially "drm/bridge: Introduce
> > pre_enable_upstream_first to alter bridge init order" seems not 100%
> > relevant to this series as they affect bridge chain call flow
> > globally. Having a separate series for that makes sense to me. I'm
> > sending v5 by excluding those parts.
>
> If so then drop the "drm: exynos: dsi: Restore proper bridge chain
> order" patch and adjust code respectively in samsung-dsim.c. Without the
> Dave's patches, that one doesn't make sense.

Doesn't it break Exynos?

Jagan.



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