Re: [PATCH] omapdss: Add new panel driver for Topolly td028ttec1 LCD.

[Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>]

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On 10/10/13 14:52, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:

> Yes, I agree and I am willing to help if someone comes up with such a SoC.
> At the moment we have connected it to the OMAP3 only.

True, but even without that kind of SoC, SPI bitbanging should be
handled by an SPI driver, not by the drivers that use the bus.

> I.e. I want not to do a lot of work for others who we just guess about that they
> might exist...

Yep. It's fine for me, it's not that much extra code in the panel driver.

>> The panel hardware has three wires, so the panel driver (if it does
>> handle the bus by bitbanging) can only refer to three gpios.
> 
> Hm. The panle hardware has 3 but the SoC (OMAP3) the driver
> is running on has 4.

Right, but this panel driver is a driver for the panel hardware. Not for
the SoC, or the SoC+panel combination. So the panel driver must only use
resources as seen by the panel hardware.

>> So either
>> the bus details should be hidden by using the normal spi framework, or
>> if the driver does the bitbanging, use the gpios as specified in the
>> panel spec. The panel driver cannot contain any board specific stuff.
> 
> The bitbang driver shown below can handle either 3 or 4 gpios (except
> for initialization).

It's not a bitbang driver, it's a panel driver. And anyway, if I
understood right, your use of 4 gpios was just a hack to try to make it
look like a normal 4-wire SPI bus. What you really have is 3 wires, 3
gpios. I don't see any reason to use 4 gpios, as two of them are the same.

Hmm, how does it work anyway. Did I understand it right, the panel's
'DIN' pin is connected to two gpios on the SoC, and one of those gpios
is set as output, and the other as input? So the SoC is always pulling
that line up or down, and the panel is also pulling it up or down when
it's sending data. I'm no HW guy but that sounds quite bad =).

I've never written or studied a bitbanging driver, but shouldn't there
be just one gpio used on the SoC for DIN, and it would be set to either
output or input mode, depending on if we are reading or writing?

 Tomi



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