Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] dt-bindings: drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Document no-hpd

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Hi Doug,

Thank you for the patch.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> The ti-sn65dsi86 MIPI DSI to eDP bridge chip has a dedicated hardware
> HPD (Hot Plug Detect) pin on it, but it's mostly useless for eDP
> because of excessive debouncing in hardware.  Specifically there is no
> way to disable the debouncing and for eDP debouncing hurts you because
> HPD is just used for knowing when the panel is ready, not for
> detecting physical plug events.
> 
> Currently the driver in Linux just assumes that nobody has HPD hooked
> up.  It relies on folks setting the "no-hpd" property in the panel
> node to specify that HPD isn't hooked up and then the panel driver
> using this to add some worst case delays when turning on the panel.
> 
> Apparently it's also useful to specify "no-hpd" in the bridge node so
> that the bridge driver can make sure it's doing the right thing
> without peeking into the panel [1].  This would be used if anyone ever
> found it useful to implement support for the HW HPD pin on the bridge.
> Let's add this property to the bindings.
> 
> NOTES:
> - This is somewhat of a backward-incompatible change.  All current
>   known users of ti-sn65dsi86 didn't have "no-hpd" specified in the
>   bridge node yet none of them had HPD hooked up.  This worked because
>   the current Linux driver just assumed that HPD was never hooked up.
>   We could make it less incompatible by saying that for this bridge
>   it's assumed HPD isn't hooked up _unless_ a property is defined, but
>   "no-hpd" is much more standard and it's unlikely to matter unless
>   someone quickly goes and implements HPD in the driver.
> - It is sensible to specify "no-hpd" at the bridge chip level and
>   specify "hpd-gpios" at the panel level.  That would mean HPD is
>   hooked up to some other GPIO in the system, just not the hardware
>   HPD pin on the bridge chip.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417180819.GE5861@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Tacked on "or is otherwise unusable." to description.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - useful implement => useful to implement
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - ("dt-bindings: drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Document no-hpd") new for v2.
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,sn65dsi86.yaml  | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,sn65dsi86.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,sn65dsi86.yaml
> index 6d7d40ad45ac..75c4e8b8e4b7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,sn65dsi86.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,sn65dsi86.yaml
> @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ properties:
>      maxItems: 1
>      description: GPIO specifier for GPIO1 pin on bridge (active low).
>  
> +  no-hpd:
> +    type: boolean
> +    description:
> +      Set if the HPD line on the bridge isn't hooked up to anything or is
> +      otherwise unusable.
> +
>    vccio-supply:
>      description: A 1.8V supply that powers the digital IOs.
>  
> @@ -207,6 +213,8 @@ examples:
>          clocks = <&rpmhcc RPMH_LN_BB_CLK2>;
>          clock-names = "refclk";
>  
> +        no-hpd;
> +
>          ports {
>            #address-cells = <1>;
>            #size-cells = <0>;

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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