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From: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com (Sebastian Hesselbarth)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC 4/4] DRM: tda998x: add missing include
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 22:50:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5197E9A0.1020607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130518202604.GM18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On 05/18/2013 10:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 09:30:09PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> The device for tda998x yes, but not the driver. Anyway, Russel decided
>> to have tda998x probed by his drm_driver.
>
> For the simple reason that _that_ is how DRM slave encoders work.
> Sometimes, reading the code of the subsystem you're using is well
> worth the effort.

I agree and add that the probing itself doesn't prevent you from using
DT for tda driver at all. You can still have an marvell,external-slave
property pointing to the phandle of tda node. With that you get the
adapter and i2c slave address for what is currently called
dove_tda19989.c and may become e.g. dove_ext_i2c.c. In tda998x_drv you
find the node and get all properties for input config or interrupt
gpio.

I have done that in the drivers before, but DT node parsing here is
_added_ to the driver as it can be used on other non-DT platforms as
well.

>> The connection of Dove LCD and tda998x is _not_ Cubox specific, it is
>> also on the D2Plug. To be precise, even "Dove LCD" is not Dove specific
>> as you can find the very same controller on other Marvell SoCs with
>> little differences.
>
> Well, to spoil the argument a little, actually, the interconnection
> between the two is in no way "standardized".  There's many different
> ways to wire the two chips together and have it work - because the
> TDA998x chips have a set of input muxes and swaps which allow you to
> connect the red, green, blue high/low nibbles in various ways and
> still have a correctly working system.  The TDA998x connectivity is
> _highly_ configuable.
>
> So, just because one board connects LCD_D0 (red bit 0) to a particular
> pin on the TDA998x does not mean that another board does it that way
> too.
>
> So Jean-Francois is quite correct that this data needs to be provided
> by the board in some manner.  The question is - how to do that sensibly.
>
> One possible stop-gap solution is to provide a default set which just
> happens to match the cubox, and allow OF to override it. :)

While I agree, Rob may have a different view on that for tda998x ;)

>> There is so much to take care of like pixel format on lcd pins driving
>> an external encoder (_not_ only tda998x), what gpio pin is connected to
>> TDA interrupt line, one or two lcds, ...
>
> Luckily, drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x.c does not make use of the IRQ
> signal at present - it's fairly basic and it currently operates by
> polling.  Eventually, this could change of course. :)

Again, that is in the driver Jean-Francois has available. Make sure irq
handler runs in a separate thread from get_edid and hpd and you will
be interrupted on hpd. Having said, that should finally lead to the
slave encoder setting .connector_type and .polled as this is where you
know it.

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-18 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-16 19:25 [RFC 0/8] rmk's Dove DRM/TDA19988 Cubox driver Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-16 19:25 ` [RFC 1/8] DRM: Add Dove DRM driver Russell King
2013-05-16 19:25 ` [RFC 2/8] drm/i2c: nxp-tda998x: fix EDID reading on TDA19988 devices Russell King
2013-05-16 19:26 ` [RFC 3/8] drm/i2c: nxp-tda998x: ensure VIP output mux is properly set Russell King
2013-05-18  6:56   ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-19 10:30     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-16 19:26 ` [RFC 4/8] drm/i2c: nxp-tda998x: fix npix/nline programming Russell King
2013-05-16 19:26 ` [RFC 5/8] drm/i2c: nxp-tda998x: prepare for video input configuration Russell King
2013-05-16 19:27 ` [RFC 6/8] drm/i2c: nxp-tda998x: add video and audio " Russell King
2013-05-22 21:08   ` Rob Clark
2013-05-16 19:27 ` [RFC 7/8] DRM: Dove: add support for drm tda19988 driver Russell King
2013-05-16 19:27 ` [RFC 8/8] DRM: dove: provide a couple of generic slave encoder helpers Russell King
2013-05-17 11:33 ` [RFC 0/8] rmk's Dove DRM/TDA19988 Cubox driver Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-17 11:58   ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-17 12:01   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-17 17:40     ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-17 18:00       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-17 18:05         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-17 18:57         ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-19  8:59       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-20 13:36         ` Alex Deucher
2013-05-20 20:15           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-20 20:23             ` Alex Deucher
2013-05-21  6:30               ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-19 11:25   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found] ` <1368897139-25485-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <1368897139-25485-3-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
2013-05-18 17:33     ` [RFC 2/4] ARM: dove: add video card node for SolidRun CuBox Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-18 18:33       ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
     [not found]   ` <1368897139-25485-4-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
2013-05-18 17:45     ` [RFC 3/4] DRM: add OF support for Dove DRM driver Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-18 18:20       ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-18 19:18         ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-20 10:16           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-18 20:46       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found]   ` <1368897139-25485-5-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
2013-05-18 17:46     ` [RFC 4/4] DRM: tda998x: add missing include Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-18 18:21       ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-18 18:23       ` Rob Clark
2013-05-18 18:58         ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-18 19:11           ` Rob Clark
2013-05-18 19:30           ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-18 20:26             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-18 20:50               ` Sebastian Hesselbarth [this message]
2013-05-19  6:01             ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-05-19  8:30               ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-05-19 16:49                 ` Jean-Francois Moine

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