Re: [PATCH v5 07/17] drm/sun4i: sun6i_mipi_dsi: Refactor vertical video start delay

[Jagan Teki]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:13 PM Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 06:57:57PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:28 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:48:21PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 7:42 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 02:26:11AM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:19 PM Maxime Ripard
> > > > > > <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 09:47:19PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > > > > > > Video start delay can be computed by subtracting total vertical
> > > > > > > > timing with front porch timing and with adding 1 delay line for TCON.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > BSP code form BPI-M64-bsp is computing video start delay as
> > > > > > > > (from linux-sunxi/
> > > > > > > > drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/disp/de/lowlevel_sun50iw1/de_dsi.c)
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > u32 vfp = panel->lcd_vt - panel->lcd_y - panel->lcd_vbp;
> > > > > > > > => (panel->lcd_vt) - panel->lcd_y - (panel->lcd_vbp)
> > > > > > > > => (timmings->ver_front_porch + panel->lcd_vbp + panel->lcd_y)
> > > > > > > >    - panel->lcd_y - (panel->lcd_vbp)
> > > > > > > > => timmings->ver_front_porch + panel->lcd_vbp + panel->lcd_y
> > > > > > > >                            - panel->lcd_y - panel->lcd_vbp
> > > > > > > > => timmings->ver_front_porch
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > So, update the start delay computation accordingly.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Even though it's a bit better now on my A33 board and I don't have the
> > > > > > > white stripes on the bottom of the display, there's still some
> > > > > > > flickering with your patches applied.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Bisecting it seems to point at that patch, but reverting it doesn't
> > > > > > > make the issue go away, so it's not really clear which one exactly is
> > > > > > > at fault.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is reverting this patch, work fine or not?
> > > > >
> > > > > As I was saying, it doesn't.
> > > > >
> > > > > > This patch is trying to make use of front porch instead of existing
> > > > > > back porch to compute the delay. Since we revert the VBP fix patch[1]
> > > > > > to assume VBP as VFP value look like your setup would also require to
> > > > > > revert this change. But as per BSP or drm_mode details all of my
> > > > > > displays even work with and w/o reverting these two.
> > > > >
> > > > > Again, I cannot help you without the datasheet for the panels you're
> > > > > trying to submit.
> > > >
> > > > The panel bound with Sitronix ST7701 IC
> > > > http://www.startek-lcd.com/res/starteklcd/pdres/201705/20170512144242904.pdf
> > >
> > > It's the controller, not the panel
> >
> > As I said before, the datasheet of that panel doesn't have any
> > information except electrical characteristics and used IC which is
> > ST7701.
> >
> > I have one more panel, which is from Bananapi, S070WV20-CT16 ICN621
> > please find the attachment for the same.
> >
> > Here is some more details of the same.
> >
> > https://github.com/yesnoandor/x300/blob/master/kernel/arch/arm/boot/dts/erobbing/x300/x300.dtsi#L81
> > https://github.com/wxzed/Raspberry_5MIPI_Display/blob/master/I2C_Slave/USER/main.c#L15
> >
> > https://github.com/eliot-shao/qcom/blob/master/icn6211_cxn0102/kernel/drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_i2c_interface.c#L152
> > matches timings for
> > https://github.com/eliot-shao/qcom/blob/master/icn6211_cxn0102/kernel/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/dsi-mipi-2-rgb_1280p_video.dtsi#L20
> >
> > https://github.com/zestroly/micromat/blob/master/test/raspberry/ICN6211.cpp#L169
>
> Where did you get the timings from then?

You mean drm_mode timings, the same panel with RGB available in
panel-simple[1], and dsi driver in Mailing list[2] and actual DSI
sequence commands from BSP[3]

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c?id=7ad8b41cd8f5c2842646d01cdd576663caee04a7
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10680331/
[3] https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-M64-bsp/blob/master/linux-sunxi/drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/disp/lcd/S070WV20_MIPI_RGB.c