[RFC PATCH 2/9] drm: bridge: Add Samsung SEC MIPI DSIM bridge driver

Jagan Teki jagan at amarulasolutions.com
Fri Jun 25 01:19:49 PDT 2021


On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 6:17 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:02:36PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > Hi Laurent,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 5:48 PM Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Jagan,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 05:42:43PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:18 AM Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 7:23 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Looking at the register set, it seems to match the Exynos 5433,
> > > > > > supported by drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_dsi.c. Can we leverage
> > > > > > that driver instead of adding a new one for the same IP core ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes. there was an attempt from Michael in this direction:
> > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/cover/20200911135413.3654800-1-m.tretter@pengutronix.de/
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the reference, I will check it out and see I can send any
> > > > updated versions wrt my i.MX8MM platform.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > I had a brief look at the exynos driver, and I think it should be turned
> > > into a DRM bridge as part of this rework to be used with the i.MX8MM.
> > >
> > > Is there someone from Samsung who could assist, at least to test the
> > > changes ?
> >
> > I have hardware to verify it on i.MX8MM but from exynos I don't have
> > any contact from Samsung to suggest or test. Maybe I can add Tomasz
> > Figa while sending the changes?
>
> Tomasz hasn't been working for Samsung for a loooong time (I've dropped
> his Samsung address from the CC list for this reason).

Okay. I think exynos drm maintainers might help out here, but not sure of it.

>
> > I understand that there are 2 key implementations.
> >
> > 1. Adjust the exynos_drm_dsi.c by dropping component_ops as i.MX8MM
> > flow with LCDIF doesn't have component_ops (make sure it works with
> > exynos platform first)
>
> I think it should be turned into a real drm_bridge, it's currently
> implemented based on drm_encoder.

Yes, ie what I'm trying for.

Jagan.



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