Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [RFC PATCH 07/11] drm: sun4i: add support for the TV encoder in H3 SoC

From: icenowy
Date: Sun Jun 04 2017 - 10:29:44 EST


å 2017-05-24 15:30ïMaxime Ripard åéï
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:00:59PM +0800, icenowy@xxxxxxx wrote:
å 2017-05-23 20:53ïMaxime Ripard åéï
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 07:55:56PM +0200, Jernej Åkrabec wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Dne sobota, 20. maj 2017 ob 03:37:53 CEST je Chen-Yu Tsai napisal(a):
> > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Jernej Åkrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Dne petek, 19. maj 2017 ob 20:08:18 CEST je Icenowy Zheng napisal(a):
> > > >> ä 2017å5æ20æ GMT+08:00 äå2:03:30, Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-
> > > >
> > > > electrons.com> åå:
> > > >> >On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:43:50AM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> > > >> >> Allwinner H3 features a TV encoder similar to the one in earlier
> > > >> >
> > > >> >SoCs,
> > > >> >
> > > >> >> but with some different points about clocks:
> > > >> >> - It has a mod clock and a bus clock.
> > > >> >> - The mod clock must be at a fixed rate to generate signal.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >Why?
> > > >>
> > > >> It's experiment result by Jernej.
> > > >>
> > > >> The clock rates in BSP kernel is also specially designed
> > > >> (PLL_DE at 432MHz) in order to be able to feed the TVE.
> > > >
> > > > My experiments and search through BSP code showed that TVE seems to have
> > > > additional fixed predivider 8. So if you want to generate 27 MHz clock,
> > > > unit has to be feed with 216 MHz.
> > > >
> > > > TVE has only one PLL source PLL_DE. And since 216 MHz is a bit low for
> > > > DE2,
> > > > BSP defaults to 432 MHz for PLL_DE and use divider 2 to generate 216 MHz.
> > > > This clock is then divided by 8 internaly to get final 27 MHz.
> > > >
> > > > Please note that I don't have any hard evidence to support that, only
> > > > experimental data. However, only that explanation make sense to me.
> > > >
> > > > BTW, BSP H3/H5 TV driver supports only PAL and NTSC which both use 27 MHz
> > > > base clock. Further experiments are needed to check if there is any
> > > > possibility to have other resolutions by manipulating clocks and give
> > > > other proper settings. I plan to do that, but not in very near future.
> > >
> > > You only have composite video output, and those are the only 2 standard
> > > resolutions that make any sense.
> >
> > Right, other resolutions are for VGA.
> >
> > Anyway, I did some more digging in A10 and R40 datasheets. I think
> > that H3 TVE
> > unit is something in between. R40 TVE has a setting to select "up
> > sample".
>
> That might be just another translation of oversampling :)
>
> I didn't know it could be applied to composite signals though, but I
> guess this is just another analog signal after all.
>
> > Possible settings are 27 MHz, 54 MHz, 108 MHz and 216 MHz. BSP
> > driver on R40
> > has this setting enabled only for PAL and NTSC and it is always 216
> > MHz. I
> > think that H3 may have this hardwired to 216 MHz and this would be
> > the reason
> > why 216 MHz is needed.
> >
> > Has anyone else any better explanation?
>
> That's already a pretty good one.
>
> Either way, wether this is upsampling, oversampling or just a
> pre-divider, this can and should be dealt with in the mode_set
> callback, and not in the probe.

I got a better idea -- let TVE driver have the CLK_TVE as an
input and create a subclock output with divider 16, and feed this
subclock to TCON lcd-ch1.

This is a model of the real hardware -- the clock divider is in
TVE, not TCON.

That's definitely not a good representation of the hardware. There's
one clock, it goes to the TCON, period.

However, the TV encoder has a constraint on that clock rate. This can
be easily implemented using a custom encoder state where you'd set the
multiplier to set on that clock, and the TCON will use it.

P.S. how to do such a custom state?

Should I do the multiplying in sun4i_tv_mode_to_drm_mode?


Maxime

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