[PATCH v2 2/2] drm/sun4i: tcon: improve DCLK polarity handling

[Giulio Benetti]

On 1/11/21 6:20 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 1/8/21 10:23 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for those patches
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 03:30:32AM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote:
>>>> From: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at micronovasrl.com>
>>>>
>>>> It turned out(Maxime suggestion) that bit 26 of SUN4I_TCON0_IO_POL_REG is
>>>> dedicated to invert DCLK polarity and this makes thing really easier than
>>>> before. So let's handle DCLK polarity by adding
>>>> SUN4I_TCON0_IO_POL_DCLK_POSITIVE as bit 26 and activating according to
>>>> bus_flags the same way is done for all the other signals.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>
>>>
>>> Suggested-by would be nice here :)
>>
>> Ok, didn't know about this tag
>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at micronovasrl.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c | 20 +-------------------
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.h |  1 +
>>>>    2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c
>>>> index 52598bb0fb0b..30171ccd87e5 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c
>>>> @@ -569,26 +569,8 @@ static void sun4i_tcon0_mode_set_rgb(struct sun4i_tcon *tcon,
>>>>    	if (info->bus_flags & DRM_BUS_FLAG_DE_LOW)
>>>>    		val |= SUN4I_TCON0_IO_POL_DE_NEGATIVE;
>>>> -	/*
>>>> -	 * On A20 and similar SoCs, the only way to achieve Positive Edge
>>>> -	 * (Rising Edge), is setting dclk clock phase to 2/3(240°).
>>>> -	 * By default TCON works in Negative Edge(Falling Edge),
>>>> -	 * this is why phase is set to 0 in that case.
>>>> -	 * Unfortunately there's no way to logically invert dclk through
>>>> -	 * IO_POL register.
>>>> -	 * The only acceptable way to work, triple checked with scope,
>>>> -	 * is using clock phase set to 0° for Negative Edge and set to 240°
>>>> -	 * for Positive Edge.
>>>> -	 * On A33 and similar SoCs there would be a 90° phase option,
>>>> -	 * but it divides also dclk by 2.
>>>> -	 * Following code is a way to avoid quirks all around TCON
>>>> -	 * and DOTCLOCK drivers.
>>>> -	 */
>>>>    	if (info->bus_flags & DRM_BUS_FLAG_PIXDATA_DRIVE_POSEDGE)
>>>> -		clk_set_phase(tcon->dclk, 0);
>>>> -
>>>> -	if (info->bus_flags & DRM_BUS_FLAG_PIXDATA_DRIVE_NEGEDGE)
>>>> -		clk_set_phase(tcon->dclk, 240);
>>>> +		val |= SUN4I_TCON0_IO_POL_DCLK_POSITIVE;
>>>
>>> I'm not really sure why we need the first patch of this series here?
>>
>> The idea was to have 2 for testing, 1st one is already applicable, while the
>> other must be tested, but I can send only one with no problem.
>>
>>> That patch only seem to undo what you did in patch 1
>>
>> No, it doesn't, the 2nd one change the way it achieve the same thing,
>> because the 1st swap DCLK phase, while the 2nd uses the IO_POL bit to set IO
>> polarity according to bus_flags.
> 
> It makes sense for testing, but I'm not sure we want to carry it into
> the history. Can you squash them both into the same patch?
Sure, I'm going to send V3 then.

Thank you
Best regards
-- 
Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas