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From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] video: mxsfb: Fix colors display on lower color depth
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:19:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51750EB9.3020301@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201304221116.18080.marex@denx.de>

Hi Marek,

Le 22/04/2013 11:16, Marek Vasut a écrit :
> Dear Maxime Ripard,
> 
>> The current code always registers as a 32 bits display, and uses the
>> hardware to drop the MSB of each color to abjust to the interface width
>> used by the panel.
>>
>> This results on 18 bits (and probably 16 bits display as well) in colors
>> being displayed poorly, because the MSB are obviously the most important
>> bits for each color definition.
>>
>> The default controller behaviour when using an interface width smaller
>> than the color depth is to drop the LSBs of each color, which makes more
>> sense because you lose the least important part of the color definition.
>>
>> So, to fix the colors display, just get back to the default controller
>> behaviour.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
> 
> Did you receive my latest email? Check M28EVK (imx28-m28evk.dts), it uses 18bit 
> LCD and works without this patch I think.

Thanks for the pointer. You mentionned in your other mail that it was
wired on 24bits but that the screen is actually 18 bits. I went to
search for the schematics to look at the wirings to see what could
differ, but I couldn't find any for the M28EVK. Are they publicly available?

Thanks,
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND] video: mxsfb: Fix colors display on lower color depth
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:19:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51750EB9.3020301@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201304221116.18080.marex@denx.de>

Hi Marek,

Le 22/04/2013 11:16, Marek Vasut a ?crit :
> Dear Maxime Ripard,
> 
>> The current code always registers as a 32 bits display, and uses the
>> hardware to drop the MSB of each color to abjust to the interface width
>> used by the panel.
>>
>> This results on 18 bits (and probably 16 bits display as well) in colors
>> being displayed poorly, because the MSB are obviously the most important
>> bits for each color definition.
>>
>> The default controller behaviour when using an interface width smaller
>> than the color depth is to drop the LSBs of each color, which makes more
>> sense because you lose the least important part of the color definition.
>>
>> So, to fix the colors display, just get back to the default controller
>> behaviour.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
> 
> Did you receive my latest email? Check M28EVK (imx28-m28evk.dts), it uses 18bit 
> LCD and works without this patch I think.

Thanks for the pointer. You mentionned in your other mail that it was
wired on 24bits but that the screen is actually 18 bits. I went to
search for the schematics to look at the wirings to see what could
differ, but I couldn't find any for the M28EVK. Are they publicly available?

Thanks,
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas@free-electrons.com>,
	Brian Lilly <brian@crystalfontz.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] video: mxsfb: Fix colors display on lower color depth
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:19:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51750EB9.3020301@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201304221116.18080.marex@denx.de>

Hi Marek,

Le 22/04/2013 11:16, Marek Vasut a écrit :
> Dear Maxime Ripard,
> 
>> The current code always registers as a 32 bits display, and uses the
>> hardware to drop the MSB of each color to abjust to the interface width
>> used by the panel.
>>
>> This results on 18 bits (and probably 16 bits display as well) in colors
>> being displayed poorly, because the MSB are obviously the most important
>> bits for each color definition.
>>
>> The default controller behaviour when using an interface width smaller
>> than the color depth is to drop the LSBs of each color, which makes more
>> sense because you lose the least important part of the color definition.
>>
>> So, to fix the colors display, just get back to the default controller
>> behaviour.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
> 
> Did you receive my latest email? Check M28EVK (imx28-m28evk.dts), it uses 18bit 
> LCD and works without this patch I think.

Thanks for the pointer. You mentionned in your other mail that it was
wired on 24bits but that the screen is actually 18 bits. I went to
search for the schematics to look at the wirings to see what could
differ, but I couldn't find any for the M28EVK. Are they publicly available?

Thanks,
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-22 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-22  8:11 [PATCH RESEND] video: mxsfb: Fix colors display on lower color depth Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22  8:11 ` Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22  8:11 ` Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22  9:08 ` Juergen Beisert
2013-04-22  9:08   ` Juergen Beisert
2013-04-22  9:08   ` Juergen Beisert
2013-04-22 10:15   ` Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22 10:15     ` Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22 10:15     ` Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22  9:16 ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-22  9:16   ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-22  9:16   ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-22 10:19   ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2013-04-22 10:19     ` Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22 10:19     ` Maxime Ripard
2013-04-22 14:30     ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-22 14:30       ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-22 14:30       ` Marek Vasut

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