[PATCH v3 3/3] clk: mediatek: mt8188-topckgen: Refactor parents for top_dp/edp muxes

Fei Shao fshao at chromium.org
Wed Nov 22 20:05:13 PST 2023


On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 6:25 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com> wrote:
>
> The top_dp and top_edp muxes can be both parented to either TVDPLL1
> or TVDPLL2, two identically specced PLLs for the specific purpose of
> giving out pixel clock: this becomes a problem when the MediaTek
> DisplayPort Interface (DPI) driver tries to set the pixel clock rate.
>
> In the usecase of two simultaneous outputs (using two controllers),
> it was seen that one of the displays would sometimes display garbled
> output (if any at all) and this was because:
>  - top_edp was set to TVDPLL1, outputting X GHz
>  - top_dp was set to TVDPLL2, outputting Y GHz
>    - mtk_dpi calls clk_set_rate(top_edp, Z GHz)
>  - top_dp is switched to TVDPLL1
>  - TVDPLL1 changes its rate, top_edp outputs the wrong rate.
>  - eDP display is garbled
>
> To solve this issue, remove all TVDPLL1 parents from `top_dp` and
> all TVDPLL2 parents from `top_edp`, plus, necessarily switch both
> clocks to use the new MUX_GATE_CLR_SET_UPD_INDEXED() macro to be
> able to use the right bit index for the new parents list.
>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>

Tested on MT8188 with a Type-C -> DP adapter to an extended display
Gigabyte M32U.
The DP output reacts smoothly to resolution switch and refresh rate
change, and the internal eDP output also never freezes.

Reviewed-by: Fei Shao <fshao at chromium.org>
Tested-by: Fei Shao <fshao at chromium.org>



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