[PATCH 0/3] Add VGA support for Apalis iMX6
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Mon Oct 12 09:40:54 PDT 2026
On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 04:25:22AM -0300, Leonardo Costa wrote:
> This series adds a device tree overlay that enables the VGA output on Apalis
> iMX6, which is driven from a parallel RGB interface passing through a
> non-programmable video DAC.
>
> The video DAC is a simple resistor network gated by an active-low
> data-enable signal. For the bridge to work properly, this series also
> changes the following in the dt-bindings and simple-bridge driver:
>
> - dt-bindings: Add a new compatible for the bridge in the simple-bridge
> binding. This is necessary because the existing dumb-vga-dac compatible
> doesn't describe a data-enable signal polarity.
>
> - simple-bridge: Add the VGA bridge match-table entry and timings
> struct, setting the DRM_BUS_FLAG_DE_LOW flag for the bridge.
Is there schematics available anywhere ? That would help reviewing the
series ?
>
> This change depends on another patch, and should be applied after it:
>
> - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261002-v1-simple-bridge-atomic-check-v1-1-ef5d8332b078@toradex.com/T/#u
>
> Adds the atomic_check function to the simple-bridge driver, which
> allows the data-enable bus flag to be propagated through the DRM
> pipeline. This is necessary for the VGA to work correctly on the
> Apalis iMX6.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Costa <leonardo.costa at toradex.com>
> ---
> Leonardo Costa (3):
> dt-bindings: display: bridge: simple: Add the Toradex Apalis iMX6 VGA DAC bridge
> drm/bridge: simple-bridge: Add Toradex RGB to VGA DAC bridge
> ARM: dts: imx6q-apalis: Add VGA overlay
>
> .../bindings/display/bridge/simple-bridge.yaml | 1 +
> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/Makefile | 21 ++++++
> .../boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-apalis-eval-vga.dtso | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/simple-bridge.c | 10 +++
> 4 files changed, 111 insertions(+)
> ---
> base-commit: f5f84daefcd92d7a630066635ecea1433ed5eac7
> change-id: 20260928-v1-apalis-imx6-enable-vga-5c7ba6b358fe
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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