Re: [RFC 0/8] *** DSC Inital Design RFC ***

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jn Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:23:45PM +0530, vikas.korjani@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: vkorjani <vikas.korjani@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> s RFC is for feature Display Stream Compression (DSC) for BXT,
> It is a VESA defined standard to compress and decompress image in display
> streams in a link independent manner. Some of the basic requirements of
> the standard are to support higher resolution on a given display link
> with fewer lanes or lower rate.
> 
> DSC is architected to work in current Intel Display Engine design
> without modification how current display pipeline works. DSC hardware
> as per HAS is in b/n port and MIPI DSI controller. so most of the
> changes are at port level.
> 
> At begining of frame display can start sending valid pixels to DSC
> at normal rate, DSC start compressing this image according to
> pps parameters programmed already to 8bpp, 10bpp, 12bpp.
> 
> /*This bitstream is temprory stored in output buffer and sent as byte
> stream to DSI controller as soon as it is valid.
> */

Where exactly is that bistream stored? In some on-chip buffer which is
hidden from us, or do we need to allocate some memory for this? I din't
spot anything of the latter form ...
-Daniel

> Following are the set of patches as per  initial design in HLD, one
> can refer DSC HLD if more details about the changes is required.
> 
> Tested these patches on fulsim simulation enviornment.
> 
> 
> vkorjani (8):
>   drm/915/bxt: Adding DSC VBT parameter and PPS structures
>   drm/i915/bxt: Adding registers to support DSC
>   drm/i915/bxt: Init PPS, Calculate DSI frequency and DPHY parameters
>     for DSC
>   drm/i915/bxt: MIPI DSI Register Programming for DSC
>   drm/i915/bxt: Program MIPI_DPI_RESOLUTION for DSC
>   drm/i915/bxt: Enable/Disable DSC and programme PPS.
>   drm: Add support for pps and compression mode command packet
>   drm/i915/bxt: Send PPS packet and compression mode command packet
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c             |   29 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h            |    2 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h            |  126 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.h          |   74 ++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi.c           |  274 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi.h           |    5 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi_panel_vbt.c |   23 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi_pll.c       |   24 ++-
>  include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h                 |    4 +-
>  include/video/mipi_display.h               |    3 +
>  10 files changed, 539 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
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