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

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 12:21:50 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Suggested-by would be nice here :)
>
> Ok, didn't know about this tag
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > 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?

Thanks!
Maxime

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