[PATCH v6 00/11] MediaTek DisplayPort: support eDP and aux-bus

Chen-Yu Tsai wenst at chromium.org
Tue Jul 18 21:00:25 PDT 2023


On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 10:14 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com> wrote:
>
> Changes in v6:
>  - Added some previously missing error checking (patch [01/11])
>  - Added error checks for devm_drm_bridge_add()
>  - Made sure that cable_plugged_in is set to false if HPD assertion
>    polling fails (timeout)
>  - Support panel as module (tested with panel-edp on MT8195 Tomato)
>  - Rebased over next-20230717

Whole series is

Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst at chromium.org>

With panel-edp builtin & as a module, and tested external display,
all on MT8195 Tomato.

Thanks!

> Changes in v5:
>  - Added .wait_hpd_asserted() callback for aux-bus
>  - Avoid enabling and registering HPD interrupt + handlers for
>    eDP case only (keeps HPD interrupts enabled for full DP case)
>  - Support not always-on eDP panels (boot with regulator off,
>    suspend with regulator off) for power saving in PM suspend.
>
> Changes in v4:
>  - Set data lanes to idle to prevent stalls if bootloader didn't
>    properly close the eDP port
>  - Now using the .done_probing() callback for AUX bus to prevent
>    probe deferral loops in case the panel-edp driver is a module
>    as previously seen with another bridge driver (ANX7625) on
>    some other SoCs (MT8192 and others)
>  - Rebased over next-20230706
>  - Dropped Chen-Yu's T-b tag on last patch as some logic changed
>    (before, I wasn't using the .done_probing() callback).
>
> Changes in v3:
>  - Added DPTX AUX block initialization before trying to communicate
>    to stop relying on the bootloader keeping it initialized before
>    booting Linux.
>  - Fixed commit description for patch [09/09] and removed commented
>    out code (that slipped from dev phase.. sorry!).
>
> This series adds "real" support for eDP in the mtk-dp DisplayPort driver.
>
> Explaining the "real":
> Before this change, the DisplayPort driver did support eDP to some
> extent, but it was treating it entirely like a regular DP interface
> which is partially fine, after all, embedded DisplayPort *is* actually
> DisplayPort, but there might be some differences to account for... and
> this is for both small performance improvements and, more importantly,
> for correct functionality in some systems.
>
> Functionality first:
>
> One of the common differences found in various boards implementing eDP
> and machines using an eDP panel is that many times the HPD line is not
> connected. This *must* be accounted for: at startup, this specific IP
> will raise a HPD interrupt (which should maybe be ignored... as it does
> not appear to be a "real" event...) that will make the eDP panel to be
> detected and to actually work but, after a suspend-resume cycle, there
> will be no HPD interrupt (as there's no HPD line in my case!) producing
> a functionality issue - specifically, the DP Link Training fails because
> the panel doesn't get powered up, then it stays black and won't work
> until rebooting the machine (or removing and reinserting the module I
> think, but I haven't tried that).
>
> Now for.. both:
> eDP panels are *e*DP because they are *not* removable (in the sense that
> you can't unplug the cable without disassembling the machine, in which
> case, the machine shall be powered down..!): this (correct) assumption
> makes us able to solve some issues and to also gain a little performance
> during PM operations.
>
> What was done here is:
>  - Caching the EDID if the panel is eDP: we're always going to read the
>    same data everytime, so we can just cache that (as it's small enough)
>    shortening PM resume times for the eDP driver instance;
>  - Always return connector_status_connected if it's eDP: non-removable
>    means connector_status_disconnected can't happen during runtime...
>    this also saves us some time and even power, as we won't have to
>    perform yet another power cycle of the HW;
>  - Added aux-bus support!
>    This makes us able to rely on panel autodetection from the EDID,
>    avoiding to add more and more panel timings to panel-edp and, even
>    better, allowing to use one panel node in devicetrees for multiple
>    variants of the same machine since, at that point, it's not important
>    to "preventively know" what panel we have (eh, it's autodetected...!).
>
> This was tested on a MT8195 Cherry Tomato Chromebook (panel-edp on aux-bus)
>
>
> P.S.: For your own testing commodity, here's a reference devicetree:
>
> pp3300_disp_x: regulator-pp3300-disp-x {
>         compatible = "regulator-fixed";
>         regulator-name = "pp3300_disp_x";
>         regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
>         regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
>         enable-active-high;
>         gpio = <&pio 55 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
>         pinctrl-names = "default";
>         pinctrl-0 = <&panel_fixed_pins>;
> };
>
> &edp_tx {
>         status = "okay";
>
>         pinctrl-names = "default";
>         pinctrl-0 = <&edptx_pins_default>;
>
>         ports {
>                 #address-cells = <1>;
>                 #size-cells = <0>;
>
>                 port at 0 {
>                         reg = <0>;
>                         edp_in: endpoint {
>                                 remote-endpoint = <&dp_intf0_out>;
>                         };
>                 };
>
>                 port at 1 {
>                         reg = <1>;
>                         edp_out: endpoint {
>                                 data-lanes = <0 1 2 3>;
>                                 remote-endpoint = <&panel_in>;
>                         };
>                 };
>         };
>
>         aux-bus {
>                 panel: panel {
>                         compatible = "edp-panel";
>                         power-supply = <&pp3300_disp_x>;
>                         backlight = <&backlight_lcd0>;
>                         port {
>                                 panel_in: endpoint {
>                                         remote-endpoint = <&edp_out>;
>                                 };
>                         };
>                 };
>         };
> };
>
> AngeloGioacchino Del Regno (11):
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Add missing error checks in
>     mtk_dp_parse_capabilities
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Move AUX and panel poweron/off sequence to function
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Change logging to dev for mtk_dp_aux_transfer()
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Use devm variant of drm_bridge_add()
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Move AUX_P0 setting to
>     mtk_dp_initialize_aux_settings()
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Enable event interrupt only when bridge attached
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Avoid mutex locks if audio is not supported/enabled
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Move PHY registration to new function
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Add support for embedded DisplayPort aux-bus
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Add .wait_hpd_asserted() for AUX bus
>   drm/mediatek: dp: Don't register HPD interrupt handler for eDP case
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/Kconfig  |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dp.c | 360 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.40.1
>



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