Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] 180 degrees rotation support for NVIDIA Tegra DRM

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:20:57PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 16.06.2020 18:48, Emil Velikov ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 12:40, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> 16.06.2020 01:26, Emil Velikov ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> >>> Hi Dmitry,
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 08:28, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>>
> >>>> This series adds 180Â display plane rotation support to the NVIDIA Tegra
> >>>> DRM driver which is needed for devices that have display panel physically
> >>>> mounted upside-down, like Nexus 7 tablet device for example [1]. Since
> >>>> DRM panel rotation is a new thing for a userspace, currently only
> >>>> Opentegra Xorg driver handles the rotated display panel [2], but this
> >>>> is good enough for the start.
> >>>>
> >>>> Note that later on it should be possible to implement a transparent 180Â
> >>>> display rotation for Tegra DRM driver which will remove the need to have
> >>>> a bleeding edge userspace that knows how to rotate display planes and I'm
> >>>> slowly working on it. For the starter we can go with the minimal rotation
> >>>> support, so it's not a blocker.
> >>>>
> >>>> This series is based on the work that was made by Derek Basehore for the
> >>>> Mediatek driver [3], his patch is included into this patchset. I added
> >>>> my tested-by tag to the Derek's patch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please review and apply, thanks in advance!
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-tegra/patch/20200607154327.18589-3-digetx@xxxxxxxxx/
> >>>> [2] https://github.com/grate-driver/xf86-video-opentegra/commit/28eb20a3959bbe5bc3a3b67e55977093fd5114ca
> >>>> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/5/1119
> >>>>
> >>>> Changelog:
> >>>>
> >>>> v2: - Dropped "drm/panel: Set display info in panel attach" patch, which
> >>>>       turned out to be obsolete now.
> >>>>
> >>>>     - Renamed the cover-latter, hopefully this will fix the bouncing emails.
> >>>>
> >>>> Derek Basehore (1):
> >>>>   drm/panel: Add helper for reading DT rotation
> >>>>
> >>>> Dmitry Osipenko (4):
> >>>>   drm/panel: lvds: Set up panel orientation
> >>>
> >>> IMHO it's perfectly reasonable to report the panel orientation to
> >>> userspace, which can apply plane rotation as needed.
> >>>
> >>> Although I see that this series, alike Derek's, has a couple of issues:
> >>>  - only a single panel driver is updated
> >>>  - rotation is _not_ listed as supported property, in said panel
> >>> driver device-tree bindings
> >>>
> >>> My personal inclination is that we should aim for a comprehensive solution:
> >>>  - wire all panel drivers, as currently documented (quick grep list below)
> >>>  - document and wire-up the lvds and boe panels - as proposed by you
> >>> and Derek respectively
> >>>
> >>> HTH
> >>> Emil
> >>>
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/himax,hx8357d.txt:2
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ilitek,ili9225.txt:2
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ilitek,ili9341.txt:2
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ilitek,ili9486.yaml:2
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/multi-inno,mi0283qt.txt:2
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.yaml:2
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/sitronix,st7586.txt:1
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/sitronix,st7735r.yaml:2
> >>
> >> Rotation is a common DT panel property that is described in the
> >> panel-common.yaml.
> > The property was introduced almost exclusively for tiny drm panels.
> > Those ones are a bit different from the rest (in panel/) -
> > MIPI-DBI/SPI w/o (not connected at least) an actual GPU.
> > 
> > To make it a bit better, the rotation is seemingly performed in the
> > tiny driver itself ouch.
> > 
> >> This property is supported by all panel bindings
> >> because these bindings inherent the common properties from the
> >> panel-common.yaml.
> >>
> > Seems like that was an unintentional change with the conversion to YAML.
> > Beforehand only a few selected panels had rotation. Upon closer look -
> > some panels do have follow-up fixes, to remove/limit the implicit
> > inclusion.
> 
> Interesting.. my understanding that the rotation property is supposed to
> be a generic property which represents physical orientation of a display
> panel and hence it should be applicable to all panels.

Adding a bit more food for thoughts, the DT rotation property for camera
sensor modules has recently been documented with lots of details. See
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20200509090456.3496481-3-jacopo@xxxxxxxxxx/,
part of the documentation may be useful for panels.

> > Sam seems like you've done most of the YAML conversion. IMHO it would
> > make sense to revisit the patches and inherit common properties only
> > as applicable.
> > 
> >> I don't think that it makes sense to wire up rotation property to all
> >> panel drivers at once because those drivers will be untested, at least I
> >> don't know anything about those other panels and can't test them. It
> >> will be much better to support the rotation on by as-needed basis for
> >> each panel driver individually.
> > 
> > How about CCing the author and reviewer asking them to test the patch?
> > The only place where the patches might cause an issue is with tiny,
> > although patches would still be appreciated.
> 
> There are quite a lot of panel drivers and I'm a bit doubtful that at
> least half of devices that use those panels have any real use for the
> rotation property. I could write the patches.. but in the end it could
> be a wasted effort if nobody needs it, so I'd prefer not to do it.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart