Hi,
Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Monday 17 March 2014 14:41:09 Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > On 03/13/2014 06:17 PM, Denis Carikli wrote:
> > > We need a way to pass signal polarity informations
> > > between DRM panels, and the display drivers.
> > >
> > > To do that, a pol_flags field was added to drm_display_mode.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Denis Carikli <denis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > ChangeLog v10->v11:
> > > - Since the imx-drm won't be able to retrive its regulators
> > >
> > > from the device tree when using display-timings nodes,
> > > and that I was told that the drm simple-panel driver
> > > already supported that, I then, instead, added what was
> > > lacking to make the eukrea displays work with the
> > > drm-simple-panel driver.
> > >
> > > That required a way to get back the display polarity
> > > informations from the imx-drm driver without affecting
> > > userspace.
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > include/drm/drm_crtc.h | 8 ++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
> > > index f764654..61a4fe1 100644
> > > --- a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
> > > +++ b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
> > > @@ -131,6 +131,13 @@ enum drm_mode_status {
> > >
> > > #define DRM_MODE_FLAG_3D_MAX DRM_MODE_FLAG_3D_SIDE_BY_SIDE_HALF
> > >
> > > +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_POL_PIXDATA_NEGEDGE BIT(1)
> > > +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_POL_PIXDATA_POSEDGE BIT(2)
> > > +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_POL_PIXDATA_PRESERVE BIT(3)
> > > +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_POL_DE_NEGEDGE BIT(4)
> > > +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_POL_DE_POSEDGE BIT(5)
> > > +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_POL_DE_PRESERVE BIT(6)
> >
> > Could you add some description to these flags.
> > What are *_PRESERVE flags for?
> > Are those flags 1:1 compatible with respective 'videomode:flags'?
> > I guess DE flags should be rather DRM_MODE_FLAG_POL_DE_(LOW|HIGH), am I
> > right?
>
> Possibly nitpicking, I wouldn't call the clock edge on which data signals are
> generated/sampled "data polarity". This is clock polarity information.
>
> Have you seen cases where pixel data and DE are geenrated or need to be
> sampled on different edges ?
>
DE is not a clock signal, but an 'Enable' signal whose value (high or
low) defines the window in which the pixel data is valid.
The flag defines whether data is valid during the HIGH or LOW period of
DE.
Lothar Waßmann
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