[PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: display: panel: add Novatek NT51021
Ryan Brue via B4 Relay
devnull+ryanbrue.dev.gmail.com at kernel.org
Sat Sep 5 18:34:34 PDT 2026
From: Ryan Brue <ryanbrue.dev at gmail.com>
The Novatek NT51021 is a DSI panel controller driving 1200x1920 WUXGA
panels over four lanes in video mode. It is fitted in the Amazon Fire HD 10
(2017), on a module carrying BOE glass.
The controller has no readable panel identity. MediaTek's LCM framework
identifies panels through a .compare_id callback and the vendor's driver
for this one leaves it unset, and the glass part number is not recorded
anywhere in the vendor tree -- it names the module only "BOE". I had the
compatible name the module after the board it ships in, the way
xiaomi,elish-boe-nt36523 and lenovo,j606f-boe-nt36523w do for this
situation.
The vendor's bootloader and kernel both carry a second register sequence
for Innolux glass, selected from two board ID straps, so a second module
exists as far as the vendor firmware is concerned. I didn't have an
Innolux unit to test with, and I don't know its part number, so it is not
described here. Naming the glass in the compatible leaves room for it as
a second compatible should someone have the hardware and the need.
The rest is panel-common: a power supply, a reset GPIO, an optional
backlight and the DSI port.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Ryan Brue <ryanbrue.dev at gmail.com>
---
.../bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt51021.yaml | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 65 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt51021.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt51021.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ee3adc88ec9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt51021.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/display/panel/novatek,nt51021.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Novatek NT51021 based 1200x1920 DSI display panels
+
+maintainers:
+ - Ryan Brue <ryanbrue.dev at gmail.com>
+
+description:
+ The Novatek NT51021 is a DSI panel controller driving 1200x1920 WUXGA
+ panels over four lanes in video mode. The controller carries no readable
+ panel identity, so each panel module it is fitted to needs its own
+ compatible naming the module.
+
+allOf:
+ - $ref: panel-common.yaml#
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ items:
+ - const: amazon,suez-boe-nt51021
+ - const: novatek,nt51021
+
+ reg:
+ maxItems: 1
+
+ power-supply: true
+ reset-gpios: true
+ backlight: true
+ port: true
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - reg
+ - power-supply
+ - reset-gpios
+ - port
+
+unevaluatedProperties: false
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
+
+ dsi {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+
+ panel at 0 {
+ compatible = "amazon,suez-boe-nt51021", "novatek,nt51021";
+ reg = <0>;
+ backlight = <&backlight_lcd>;
+ power-supply = <&vgp6>;
+ reset-gpios = <&pio 105 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+
+ port {
+ endpoint {
+ remote-endpoint = <&dsi_out>;
+ };
+ };
+ };
+ };
--
2.55.0
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