Re: [PATCH 3/9] Doc/DT: Add DT binding documentation for DVI Connector

[Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 11.03.2014, 10:04 +0200 schrieb Tomi Valkeinen:
> On 11/03/14 10:00, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> wrote:
> >> On 10/03/14 23:45, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>> I like this proposal over the others. Although, would dual link be a
> >>
> >> I don't like inferring the information. With the above, you can't find
> >> out that the DVI connector has digital and analog support before all the
> >> drivers are loaded.
> >>
> >>> single endpoint or 2 endpoints? How would you differentiate that?
> >>
> >> Hmm, well endpoints for a single port are exclusive. So it's either a
> >> single port and a single endpoint, or two ports and two endpoints. I
> >> think dual link has to be single port & endpoint, as the TMDS links need
> >> to be driven together as a single bus.
> >>
> >> And dual-link is not really "two links". DVI dual-link means 1 clock
> >> lane and 6 data lanes, compared to 1 clock lane and 3 data lanes for
> >> single-link.
> > 
> > What about having a property for the number of data lanes?
> 
> That was already suggested by Philipp in this thread. I don't see
> anything wrong with that, but I don't really see benefit either.
> "dual-link" is a standard term for 6 data lanes for the DVI connector.
> And the choices are 3 or 6 data lanes, nothing else.

The number of lanes of a DisplayPort connector could be 1 to 4. Also,
there's dual-mode DP which can use four lanes to drive
somewhat-like-HDMI single link TMDS signals.

regards
Philipp