Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] drm/ingenic: Attach bridge chain to encoders

From: Paul Boddie
Date: Sat Sep 25 2021 - 11:55:53 EST


On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:29:02 CEST Paul Cercueil wrote:
>
> Le ven., sept. 24 2021 at 00:51:39 +0200, Paul Boddie
> >
> > 2. My approach, which just involves changing the Synopsys driver to
> > set the bridge type in dw_hdmi_probe like this:
> >
> > hdmi->bridge.type = DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_HDMIA;
> >
> > Otherwise, I don't see how the bridge's (struct drm_bridge) type will
> > be set.
>
> The bridge's type is set in hdmi-connector, from DTS. The 'type = "a"'
> will result in the bridge's .type to be set to DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_HDMIA.

Actually, I found that hdmi-connector might not have been available because
CONFIG_DRM_DISPLAY_CONNECTOR was not enabled. Rectifying this, the connector
does get detected and enabled. However, the Synopsys driver remains unaware of
it, and so the bridge type in the Synopsys driver remains unset.

I do see that the connector sets the type on a bridge in its own private
structure, so there would be a need to propagate this type to the actual
bridge. In other words, what the connector does is distinct from the Synopsys
driver which acts as the bridge with regard to the Ingenic driver.

Perhaps the Synopsys driver should set the connector's bridge as the next
bridge, or maybe something is supposed to discover that the connector may act
as (or provide) a bridge after the Synopsys driver in the chain and then back-
propagate the bridge type along the chain.

[...]

> > And I removed any of the above hacks. What I observe, apart from an
> > inactive LCD controller (and ingenic-drm driver), is the following in
> > /sys/devices/platform/10180000.hdmi/:
> >
> > consumer:platform:13050000.lcdc0
> > consumer:platform:hdmi_connector

Interestingly, with the connector driver present, these sysfs entries no
longer appear.

[...]

> > For me, running modetest yields plenty of information about encoders,
> > connectors (and the supported modes via the EDID, thanks to my HDMI-A
> > hack), CRTCs, and planes. But no framebuffers are reported.
>
> Could you paste the result of "modetest -a -c -p" somewhere maybe?

I had to specify -M ingenic-drm as well, but here you go...

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Connectors:
id encoder status name size (mm) modes encoders
35 34 connected HDMI-A-1 340x270 17 34
modes:
index name refresh (Hz) hdisp hss hse htot vdisp vss vse vtot)
#0 1280x1024 60.02 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 108000 flags:
phsync, pvsync; type: preferred, driver
#1 1280x1024 75.02 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 135000 flags:
phsync, pvsync; type: driver
#2 1280x960 60.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961 964 1000 108000 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type: driver
#3 1152x864 75.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 108000 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type: driver
#4 1024x768 75.03 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 78750 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type: driver
#5 1024x768 70.07 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 75000 flags: nhsync,
nvsync; type: driver
#6 1024x768 60.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 65000 flags: nhsync,
nvsync; type: driver
#7 832x624 74.55 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 57284 flags: nhsync,
nvsync; type: driver
#8 800x600 75.00 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 49500 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type: driver
#9 800x600 72.19 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 50000 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type: driver
#10 800x600 60.32 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 40000 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type: driver
#11 800x600 56.25 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 36000 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type: driver
#12 640x480 75.00 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 31500 flags: nhsync,
nvsync; type: driver
#13 640x480 72.81 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520 31500 flags: nhsync,
nvsync; type: driver
#14 640x480 66.67 640 704 768 864 480 483 486 525 30240 flags: nhsync,
nvsync; type: driver
#15 640x480 59.94 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 25175 flags: nhsync,
nvsync; type: driver
#16 720x400 70.08 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 28320 flags: nhsync,
pvsync; type: driver
props:
1 EDID:
flags: immutable blob
blobs:

value:
00ffffffffffff00047232ad01010101
2d0e010380221b782aaea5a6544c9926
145054bfef0081808140714f01010101
010101010101302a009851002a403070
1300520e1100001e000000ff00343435
3030353444454330300a000000fc0041
4c313731350a202020202020000000fd
00384c1e520e000a2020202020200051
2 DPMS:
flags: enum
enums: On=0 Standby=1 Suspend=2 Off=3
value: 0
5 link-status:
flags: enum
enums: Good=0 Bad=1
value: 0
6 non-desktop:
flags: immutable range
values: 0 1
value: 0
4 TILE:
flags: immutable blob
blobs:

value:
20 CRTC_ID:
flags: object
value: 32

CRTCs:
id fb pos size
32 39 (0,0) (1280x1024)
#0 60.02 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 108000 flags: phsync,
pvsync; type:
props:
22 ACTIVE:
flags: range
values: 0 1
value: 1
23 MODE_ID:
flags: blob
blobs:

value:
e0a5010000053005a005980600000004
010404042a0400003c00000005000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000
19 OUT_FENCE_PTR:
flags: range
values: 0 18446744073709551615
value: 0
24 VRR_ENABLED:
flags: range
values: 0 1
value: 0
28 GAMMA_LUT:
flags: blob
blobs:

value:
29 GAMMA_LUT_SIZE:
flags: immutable range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 256

Planes:
id crtc fb CRTC x,y x,y gamma size possible crtcs
31 32 39 0,0 0,0 0 0x00000001
formats: XR15 RG16 RG24 XR24 XR30
props:
8 type:
flags: immutable enum
enums: Overlay=0 Primary=1 Cursor=2
value: 1
17 FB_ID:
flags: object
value: 39
18 IN_FENCE_FD:
flags: signed range
values: -1 2147483647
value: -1
20 CRTC_ID:
flags: object
value: 32
13 CRTC_X:
flags: signed range
values: -2147483648 2147483647
value: 0
14 CRTC_Y:
flags: signed range
values: -2147483648 2147483647
value: 0
15 CRTC_W:
flags: range
values: 0 2147483647
value: 1280
16 CRTC_H:
flags: range
values: 0 2147483647
value: 1024
9 SRC_X:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 0
10 SRC_Y:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 0
11 SRC_W:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 83886080
12 SRC_H:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 67108864
33 0 0 0,0 0,0 0 0x00000001
formats: C8 XR15 RG16 RG24 XR24 XR30
props:
8 type:
flags: immutable enum
enums: Overlay=0 Primary=1 Cursor=2
value: 0
17 FB_ID:
flags: object
value: 0
18 IN_FENCE_FD:
flags: signed range
values: -1 2147483647
value: -1
20 CRTC_ID:
flags: object
value: 0
13 CRTC_X:
flags: signed range
values: -2147483648 2147483647
value: 0
14 CRTC_Y:
flags: signed range
values: -2147483648 2147483647
value: 0
15 CRTC_W:
flags: range
values: 0 2147483647
value: 0
16 CRTC_H:
flags: range
values: 0 2147483647
value: 0
9 SRC_X:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 0
10 SRC_Y:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 0
11 SRC_W:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 0
12 SRC_H:
flags: range
values: 0 4294967295
value: 0

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> If you have info about the CRTCs, encoders, connectors and EDID info,
> then I would assume it is very close to working fine.
>
> For your "no framebuffer" issue, keep in mind that CONFIG_FB and
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE are now disabled by default.

Yes, I discovered that CONFIG_FB was not enabled, so I did so.

> If that doesn't fix anything, that probably means that one
> .atomic_check() fails, so it would be a good place to start debugging.

There will be other things to verify in the Ingenic driver. As noted many
months ago, colour depth information has to be set in the DMA descriptors and
not the control register, but we are managing to do this successfully, as far
as I can tell, although there is always the potential for error.

Paul