This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dt-bindings: display: sun4i: Add allwinner,tcon-channel property
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dt-bindings-display-sun4i-add-allwinner-tcon-channel-property.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 18:09:34 +0200
Subject: dt-bindings: display: sun4i: Add allwinner,tcon-channel property
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 22662f12768f971809b478386d9cc4947d00497a ]
The Allwinner Timings Controller has two, mutually exclusive, channels.
When the binding has been introduced, it was assumed that there would be
only a single user per channel in the system.
While this is likely for the channel 0 which only connects to LCD displays,
it turns out that the channel 1 can be connected to multiple controllers in
the SoC (HDMI and TV encoders for example). And while the simultaneous use
of HDMI and TV outputs cannot be achieved, switching from one to the other
at runtime definitely sounds plausible.
Add an extra property, allwinner,tcon-channel, to specify for a given
endpoint which TCON channel it is connected to, while falling back to the
previous mechanism if that property is missing.
Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/sunxi/sun4i-drm.txt | 11 ++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/sunxi/sun4i-drm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/sunxi/sun4i-drm.txt
@@ -47,10 +47,13 @@ Required properties:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt. The
first port should be the input endpoint, the second one the output
- The output should have two endpoints. The first is the block
- connected to the TCON channel 0 (usually a panel or a bridge), the
- second the block connected to the TCON channel 1 (usually the TV
- encoder)
+ The output may have multiple endpoints. The TCON has two channels,
+ usually with the first channel being used for the panels interfaces
+ (RGB, LVDS, etc.), and the second being used for the outputs that
+ require another controller (TV Encoder, HDMI, etc.). The endpoints
+ will take an extra property, allwinner,tcon-channel, to specify the
+ channel the endpoint is associated to. If that property is not
+ present, the endpoint number will be used as the channel number.
On SoCs other than the A33, there is one more clock required:
- 'tcon-ch1': The clock driving the TCON channel 1
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/dt-bindings-display-sun4i-add-allwinner-tcon-channel-property.patch
queue-4.9/drm-sun4i-ignore-the-generic-connectors-for-components.patch