Re: DSS2: Simultaneous DSI and DPI panels

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On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 16:14 +0530, Archit Taneja wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday 13 May 2011 12:46 AM, Juha Kuikka wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if it would be possible to run DPI and DSI interfaces
> > simultaneously with OMAP3 (DM3730).
> >
> > Limitations:
> > - DSI would have to be in video mode (data to DSI phy through video
> > port with H/VSYNC signaling, OMAP_DSS_PARALLELMODE_BYPASS)
> > - DSI PLL would need to be used for clock source
> > - Both the DPI and DSI panels would have to accept identical clocking
> > (PCLK, blanking intervals etc).
> > - Data lane # must match.
> > - And of course same data would go to both
> >
> > I realize the current SW does not support this, but I'm more wondering
> > if it is possible from the HW point of view because it seems to me
> > that data out from DISPC is pretty much identical in both cases.
> 
> I don't think this is possible on OMAP3, there is one LCD manager in 
> OMAP3 which can either feed pixels to DPI or DSI.
> 
> The only way you could run 2 panels is by routing LCD manager's content 
> to DPI, and use DSI's capability to do a system DMA directly and send 
> the data to the panel(bypassing DISPC), I don't think the system DMA 
> method will work with a video mode panel, only command mode panels will 
> do here.

Yes, that is correct. DPI + DSI command mode would work, although in
that case the DSI panel would be driven by CPU or sDMA, both of which
are not very good at the job.

 Tomi


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