Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: tegra: Add HDMI support

[Thierry Reding]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:01:18PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:00:54PM +0100, Christian KÃnig wrote:
> > On 09.11.2012 16:45, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
> > >2012/11/9 Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >>+/* all fields little endian */
> > >>+struct hdmi_audio_infoframe {
> > >>+       /* PB0 */
> > >>+       u8 csum;
> > >>+
> > >>+       /* PB1 */
> > >>+       unsigned cc:3; /* channel count */
> > >>+       unsigned res1:1;
> > >>+       unsigned ct:4; /* coding type */
> > >>+
> > >>+       /* PB2 */
> > >>+       unsigned ss:2; /* sample size */
> > >>+       unsigned sf:3; /* sample frequency */
> > >>+       unsigned res2:3;
> > >>+
> > >>+       /* PB3 */
> > >>+       unsigned cxt:5; /* coding extention type */
> > >>+       unsigned res3:3;
> > >>+
> > >>+       /* PB4 */
> > >>+       u8 ca; /* channel/speaker allocation */
> > >>+
> > >>+       /* PB5 */
> > >>+       unsigned res5:3;
> > >>+       unsigned lsv:4; /* level shift value */
> > >>+       unsigned dm_inh:1; /* downmix inhibit */
> > >>+
> > >>+       /* PB6-10 reserved */
> > >>+       u8 res6;
> > >>+       u8 res7;
> > >>+       u8 res8;
> > >>+       u8 res9;
> > >>+       u8 res10;
> > >>+} __packed;
> > >I was told it won't work on different endian devices. See
> > >[RFC][PATCH] drm/radeon/hdmi: define struct for AVI infoframe
> > >http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-May/022544.html
> > 
> > Yeah, that's indeed true. And honestly adding just another
> > implementation of the HDMI info frames sounds like somebody should
> > finally sit down and implement it in a common drm_hdmi.c
> 
> So I've been looking at what most other implementations do and it seems
> a lot just fill the AVI infoframe with zeroes while only a few actually
> try to put useful information in them. Still in order to plan for a
> generic solution, I thought maybe something like the below set of
> structures and functions could work:
> 
> /*
>  * Structure that contains the infoframe fields in a form that allows them to
>  * be easily accessed from C code.
>  */
> struct hdmi_avi_infoframe;
> 
> /*
>  * DRM helper to fill a struct hdmi_avi_infoframe with information taken from
>  * a struct drm_display_mode. Fields that cannot automatically be derived by
>  * looking at a struct drm_display_mode are set to the default values.
>  */
> int drm_hdmi_avi_infoframe_from_display_mode(struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame,
> 					     struct drm_display_mode *mode);
> 
> /*
>  * Packs the struct hdmi_avi_infoframe into a binary buffer that can be
>  * programmed to the hardware-specific registers.
>  */
> ssize_t hdmi_avi_infoframe_pack(struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame,
> 				void *buffer, size_t size);
> 
> Such a scheme would allow DRM drivers to call the helper and tweak the
> fields in the structure if the want or need to and call the packing
> function to obtain a buffer that they can write to the controller.
> 
> Does that sound at all reasonable?

And I forgot, maybe this shouldn't be included in the drivers/gpu/drm
subdirectory, but rather in a more generic location such as
drivers/video since other subsystems (V4L2) may want to use the same
code.

Thierry

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