[PATCH v2 3/7] dt-bindings: display: mxsfb: Add a bus-width endpoint property

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Fri Oct 9 19:58:43 EDT 2020


Hi Marek,

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 10:40:26AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 10/7/20 3:24 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +          bus-width:
> > +            enum: [16, 18, 24]
> > +            description: |
> > +              The output bus width. This value overrides the configuration
> > +              derived from the connected device (encoder or panel). It should
> > +              only be specified when PCB routing of the data signals require a
> > +              different bus width on the LCDIF and the connected device. For
> > +              instance, when a 18-bit RGB panel has its R[5:0], G[5:0] and
> > +              B[5:0] signals connected to LCD_DATA[7:2], LCD_DATA[15:10] and
> > +              LCD_DATA[23:18] instead of LCD_DATA[5:0], LCD_DATA[11:6] and
> > +              LCD_DATA[17:12], bus-width should be set to 24.
> 
> The iMX6 IPUv3 uses interface-pix-fmt which is a bit more flexible, but
> I'm not sure whether it's the right way to go about this, see:
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/imx/fsl-imx-drm.txt

I think specifying the bus with is better. It's a standard property, but
more than that, a given bus width can carry different formats. For
instance, a 24-bus could carry RGB666 data (with dithering for the
LSBs).

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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