[PATCH v5 01/11] drm/hisilicon: Add device tree binding for hi6220 display subsystem

Xinliang Liu xinliang.liu at linaro.org
Thu Feb 25 18:21:56 PST 2016


On 25 February 2016 at 10:21, Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 24 February 2016 at 02:37, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark, thanks for review.
>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:00:21AM +0800, Xinliang Liu wrote:
>>> Add ADE display controller binding doc.
>>> Add DesignWare DSI Host Controller v1.20a binding doc.
>>>
>>> v5:
>>> - Remove endpoint unit address of dsi output port.
>>> - Add "hisilicon,noc-syscon" property for ADE NOC QoS syscon.
>>> - Add "resets" property for ADE reset.
>>> v4:
>>> - Describe more specific of clocks and ports.
>>> - Fix indentation.
>>> v3:
>>> - Make ade as the drm master node.
>>> - Use assigned-clocks to set clock rate.
>>> - Use ports to connect display relavant nodes.
>>> v2:
>>> - Move dt binding docs to bindings/display/hisilicon directory.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei at hisilicon.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu at linaro.org>
>>> ---
>>>  .../bindings/display/hisilicon/dw-dsi.txt          | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../bindings/display/hisilicon/hisi-ade.txt        | 64 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 136 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/dw-dsi.txt
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/hisi-ade.txt
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/dw-dsi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/dw-dsi.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..0d234b5e19af
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/dw-dsi.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
>>> +Device-Tree bindings for DesignWare DSI Host Controller v1.20a driver
>>> +
>>> +A DSI Host Controller resides in the middle of display controller and external
>>> +HDMI converter or panel.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible: value should be "hisilicon,hi6220-dsi".
>>> +- reg: physical base address and length of dsi controller's registers.
>>> +- clocks: the clocks needed.
>>> +- clock-names: the name of the clocks.
>>
>> You _must_ specify the precise set of clock names you expect here.
>>
>> Per the example, you seem to expect "pclk_dsi".
>>
>> Is that the name given in the DSI controller manual? Or is it just
>> "pclk"? It's already specific to the DSI controller...
>>

Yet, while reading the DSI controller manual. It is called "pclk".
Yes, you are right this is already specific to the DSI controller.
will use "pclk" instead in next version.

>
> I have read the SoC manual again, and it is the configuration clock.
> Maybe we can call it "cfg_clk".



>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/hisi-ade.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/hisi-ade.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..c1844b3ff878
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/hisi-ade.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
>>> +Device-Tree bindings for hisilicon ADE display controller driver
>>> +
>>> +ADE (Advanced Display Engine) is the display controller which grab image
>>> +data from memory, do composition, do post image processing, generate RGB
>>> +timing stream and transfer to DSI.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible: value should be "hisilicon,hi6220-ade".
>>> +- reg: physical base address and length of the ADE controller's registers.
>>> +  Value should be "<0x0 0xf4100000 0x0 0x7800>".
>>
>> Get rid of the "Value should be ... " part. It is nonsensical to
>> describe this in the binding. Just describe what this is with relation
>> to _this_ IP block.
>
> OK, will fix all these parts in next version.
>
>>
>>> +- reg-names: name of physical base. Value should be "ade_base".
>>
>> That obviously doesn't apply to *-names propertiesm which must all be
>> specified in the binding (they're local to the device rather than
>> remote).
>>
>>> +- hisilicon,noc-syscon: ADE NOC QoS syscon. Value should be "<&medianoc_ade>"
>>> +- resets: The ADE reset controller node. Value should be "<&media_ctrl
>>> +  MEDIA_ADE>".
>>
>> Likewise.
>>
>>> +- interrupt: the ldi vblank interrupt number used.
>>> +- clocks: the clocks needed. Three clocks are used in ADE driver:
>>> +  ADE core clock, value should be "<&media_ctrl HI6220_ADE_CORE>";
>>> +  ADE pixel clok, value should be "<&media_ctrl HI6220_ADE_PIX_SRC>";
>>> +  media NOC QoS clock, value should be "<&media_ctrl HI6220_CODEC_JPEG>".
>>> +- clock-names: the name of the clocks. Values should be "clk_ade_core",
>>> +  "clk_codec_jpeg" and "clk_ade_pix".
>>
>> Likewise, don't specify the value.
>>
>> Jsut define clocks in terms of clock-names, e.g.
>>
>> - clocks: a list of phandle + clock-specifier pairs, one for each entry
>>   in clock-names.
>> - clock-names: should contain:
>>   * "clk_ade_core" for the ADE ciore clock
>>   * ...
>>   * ...
>
> All right, got it. Thanks for teaching me how to to.
>
>>
>>> +- assigned-clocks: clocks to be assigned rate.
>>> +- assigned-clock-rates: clock rates which are assigned to assigned-clocks.
>>> +  The rate of <&media_ctrl HI6220_ADE_CORE> could be "360000000" or
>>> +  "180000000";
>>> +  The rate of <&media_ctrl HI6220_CODEC_JPEG> could be less than "1440000000".
>>
>> Is this strictly necessary? Why can the druiver not configure this?
>>
>> Does this have to match some pre-existing boot-time configuration?
>
> This is the maximum configuration value due to the parent clk and divider.
> And there is no pre-existing boot-time configuration about this.
> Driver could configure the value according to the performance and
> power consumption.
>
> Thanks,
> -xinliang
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark.



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