Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: imx8mp-verdin: add dsi to hdmi functionality

Laurent Pinchart
2022-09-03T00:29:14Z

Hi Francesco,

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 05:57:20PM +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> Hello Laurent,
> answering here for both patches (1/2 and 2/2).
>
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 09:07:49PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 05:40:50PM +0200, Max Krummenacher wrote:
> > > From: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
> > >
> > > Add the hdmi connector present on the dsi to hdmi adapter now
> > > required by the upstream lontium bridge driver.
> > > The dsi to hdmi adapter is enabled in an device tree overlay.
> >
> > Shouldn't the connector also be in the overlay ? There's certainly no
> > physical HDMI connector on the i.MX8MP Verdin SoM :-)
>
> Toradex DTS include and overlay files structure so far has been a little
> bit different and not following the expectation you just stated here,
> you can just check the current *toradex*dts* files and you'll see that there
> is other stuff that is not strictly part of the module.
>
> Copying from a previous email thread on a very similar discussion [0]
> some of the reasons:
>
> - The SoM dtsi representing not only the functionality implemented into
> the SoM, but the whole connector pinout to the carrier makes very easy
> to just include a different som.dtsi in the carrier board dts and just
> switch SoM, for example from a colibri-imx6 to a colibri-imx7.

That's fine, but I don't see how that's related to the issue at hand.
The DSI to HDMI bridge wouldn't be present on either SoM, would it ?

> - We avoid code duplication
>
> This is working for us pretty well so far and the majority of the users
> of ours modules rely on this structure, we would prefer not to change that.

It may work for your current use cases, but it doesn't make it right :-)
Someone can integrate a Verdin SoM with a carrier board that has no DSI
to HDMI (or LVDS) bridge, there should thus be no such device in the
device tree. The SoM has DSI signals present on its connector, that's
what the SoM .dtsi should expose.

> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220413094449.GB118560@francesco-nb.int.toradex.com/