Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: sun7i: dts: Add LVDS panel support on A20

From: Andrey Lebedev
Date: Fri Feb 14 2020 - 16:32:41 EST


On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 09:53:51AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:43:58AM +0200, Andrey Lebedev wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 08:52:18AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > > > This will create a spurious warning message for TCON1, since we
> > > > > adjusted the driver to tell it supports LVDS, but there's no LVDS
> > > > > reset line, so we need to make it finer grained.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I can attribute two of the messages in my dmesg log [1] to this
> > > > ("Missing LVDS properties" and "LVDS output disabled". "sun4i-tcon
> > > > 1c0d000.lcd-controller" is indeed tcon1). And yes, I can see how they
> > > > can be confusing to someone.
> > > >
> > > > I'd need some pointers on how to deal with that though (if we want to do
> > > > it in this scope).
> > >
> > > Like I was mentionning, you could introduce a new compatible for each
> > > TCON (tcon0 and tcon1) and only set the support_lvds flag for tcon0
> >
> > Can you give me an idea how that compatible might look like?
> >
> > tcon0: lcd-controller@1c0c000 {
> > compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-tcon", "allwinner,lvds";
> >
> > or
> >
> > tcon0: lcd-controller@1c0c000 {
> > compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-tcon", "allwinner,tcon0";
> >
> > ? Or something completely different?
>
> Something like
>
> &tcon0 {
> compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-tcon0", "allwinner,sun7i-a20-tcon";
> };
>
> &tcon1 {
> compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-tcon1", "allwinner,sun7i-a20-tcon";
> };
>

Hi Maxime, here is what I came up with, please take a look. If the
approach is right, I'll split it up and include into the patch set.