Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] MediaTek DisplayPort: support eDP and aux-bus

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Il 06/04/23 09:20, Chen-Yu Tsai ha scritto:
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 6:48 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Changes in v3:
  - Added DPTX AUX block initialization before trying to communicate
    to stop relying on the bootloader keeping it initialized before
    booting Linux.
  - Fixed commit description for patch [09/09] and removed commented
    out code (that slipped from dev phase.. sorry!).

This series adds "real" support for eDP in the mtk-dp DisplayPort driver.

Explaining the "real":
Before this change, the DisplayPort driver did support eDP to some
extent, but it was treating it entirely like a regular DP interface
which is partially fine, after all, embedded DisplayPort *is* actually
DisplayPort, but there might be some differences to account for... and
this is for both small performance improvements and, more importantly,
for correct functionality in some systems.

Functionality first:

One of the common differences found in various boards implementing eDP
and machines using an eDP panel is that many times the HPD line is not
connected. This *must* be accounted for: at startup, this specific IP
will raise a HPD interrupt (which should maybe be ignored... as it does
not appear to be a "real" event...) that will make the eDP panel to be
detected and to actually work but, after a suspend-resume cycle, there
will be no HPD interrupt (as there's no HPD line in my case!) producing
a functionality issue - specifically, the DP Link Training fails because
the panel doesn't get powered up, then it stays black and won't work
until rebooting the machine (or removing and reinserting the module I
think, but I haven't tried that).

Now for.. both:
eDP panels are *e*DP because they are *not* removable (in the sense that
you can't unplug the cable without disassembling the machine, in which
case, the machine shall be powered down..!): this (correct) assumption
makes us able to solve some issues and to also gain a little performance
during PM operations.

What was done here is:
  - Caching the EDID if the panel is eDP: we're always going to read the
    same data everytime, so we can just cache that (as it's small enough)
    shortening PM resume times for the eDP driver instance;
  - Always return connector_status_connected if it's eDP: non-removable
    means connector_status_disconnected can't happen during runtime...
    this also saves us some time and even power, as we won't have to
    perform yet another power cycle of the HW;
  - Added aux-bus support!
    This makes us able to rely on panel autodetection from the EDID,
    avoiding to add more and more panel timings to panel-edp and, even
    better, allowing to use one panel node in devicetrees for multiple
    variants of the same machine since, at that point, it's not important
    to "preventively know" what panel we have (eh, it's autodetected...!).

This was tested on a MT8195 Cherry Tomato Chromebook (panel-edp on aux-bus)


P.S.: For your own testing commodity, here's a reference devicetree:
&edp_tx {
         status = "okay";

         pinctrl-names = "default";
         pinctrl-0 = <&edptx_pins_default>;

         ports {
                 #address-cells = <1>;
                 #size-cells = <0>;

                 port@0 {
                         reg = <0>;
                         edp_in: endpoint {
                                 remote-endpoint = <&dp_intf0_out>;
                         };
                 };

                 port@1 {
                         reg = <1>;
                         edp_out: endpoint {
                                 data-lanes = <0 1 2 3>;
                                 remote-endpoint = <&panel_in>;
                         };
                 };
         };

         aux-bus {
                 panel: panel {
                         compatible = "edp-panel";
                         power-supply = <&pp3300_disp_x>;
                         backlight = <&backlight_lcd0>;
                         port {
                                 panel_in: endpoint {
                                         remote-endpoint = <&edp_out>;
                                 };
                         };
                 };
         };
};

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno (9):
   drm/mediatek: dp: Cache EDID for eDP panel
   drm/mediatek: dp: Move AUX and panel poweron/off sequence to function
   drm/mediatek: dp: Always return connected status for eDP in .detect()
   drm/mediatek: dp: Always set cable_plugged_in at resume for eDP panel
   drm/mediatek: dp: Change logging to dev for mtk_dp_aux_transfer()
   drm/mediatek: dp: Enable event interrupt only when bridge attached
   drm/mediatek: dp: Use devm variant of drm_bridge_add()
   drm/mediatek: dp: Move AUX_P0 setting to
     mtk_dp_initialize_aux_settings()
   drm/mediatek: dp: Add support for embedded DisplayPort aux-bus

Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

on MT8195 Tomato: eDP panel works if the display panel regulator is always
on. External DP works.

Maybe it has something to do with the driver not supporting .wait_hpd_asserted
and not using a GPIO for HPD?

Even before this change I couldn't get the panel to reliably work without keeping the regulator always on (just to point out that I'm not introducing regressions).

I am already trying to understand why this happens... and I'm still researching...
but there's what I've seen for now:
 * Set the panel regulator as regulator-boot-on;
 * Boot: edp-panel will correctly read the EDID, then will run the PM suspend
   handler
 * mtk-dp's .get_edid() callback gets called but, at that time, edp-panel will
   still be suspended (PM resume handler didn't get called)
   * Regulator is still down
 * Failure.

That's not right and probably the .get_edid() callback in mtk-dp has an abuse:
there, mtk_dp_parse_capabilities() gets called, which performs initialization
of some variables for DP link training (essential to get the DP going!).

The question that I am making to myself is whether I should move that elsewhere,
if so, what's the right place (making me able to remove the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID
bridge flag when eDP + aux-bus), or if I should leave that and make sure that the
panel-edp's resume callback is called before .get_edid() from mtk-dp gets called.

That can get done in a separated series (or single patch?)... so that if we get
this one picked sooner than later, we can start upstreaming the panel nodes in
the Cherry devicetrees and only remove the regulator-always-on later.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Angelo



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