Re: [PATCH V6 0/6] drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: Support variable clocking

[Adam Ford]

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 5:57 PM Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 16.05.2023 01:57, Adam Ford wrote:
> > This series fixes the blanking pack size and the PMS calculation.  It then
> > adds support to allows the DSIM to dynamically DPHY clocks, and support
> > non-burst mode while allowing the removal of the hard-coded clock values
> > for the PLL for imx8m mini/nano/plus, and it allows the removal of the
> > burst-clock device tree entry when burst-mode isn't supported by connected
> > devices like an HDMI brige.  In that event, the HS clock is set to the
> > value requested by the bridge chip.
> >
> > This has been tested on both an i.MX8M Nano and i.MX8M Plus, and should
> > work on i.MX8M Mini as well. Marek Szyprowski has tested it on various
> > Exynos boards.
> >
> > Adam Ford (5):
> >    drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: Fix PMS Calculator on imx8m[mnp]
> >    drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: Fetch pll-clock-frequency automatically
> >    drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: Select GENERIC_PHY_MIPI_DPHY
> >    drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: Dynamically configure DPHY timing
> >    drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: Support non-burst mode
> >
> > Lucas Stach (1):
> >    drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: fix blanking packet size calculation
> >
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig        |   1 +
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >   include/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.h     |   4 +
> >   3 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> Feel free to add to all patches:
>
> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for all your help testing.  I hope the V7 will be the last
attempt.  I've fixed the repeated declaration in patch 6, and added
your t-b statements to each of the patches with code changes.

I'm hoping to push V7 in a day or two pending any more feedback.

adam
>
>
> > V6:  Squash-in an additional error fix from Lucas Stach regarding the
> >       DPHY calcuations.  Remove the dynamic_dphy variable and let
> >       everyone use the new calculations.  Move the hs_clock caching
> >       from patch 6 to patch 5 to go along with the DPHY calcuations
> >       since they are now based on the recorded hs_clock rate.
> >
> > V5:  Update error message to dev_info and change them to indicate
> >       what is happening without sounding like an error when optional
> >       device tree entries are missing.
> >
> > V4:  Undo some accidental whitespace changes, rename PS_TO_CYCLE
> >       variables to ps and hz from PS and MHz. Remove if check
> >       before the samsung_dsim_set_phy_ctrl call since it's
> >       unnecessary.
> >       Added additional tested-by and reviewed-by comments.
> >       Squash patches 6 and 7 together since the supporting
> >       non-burst (patch 6) mode doesn't really work until
> >       patch 7 was applied.
> >
> > V3:  When checking if the bust-clock is present, only check for it
> >       in the device tree, and don't check the presence of the
> >       MIPI_DSI_MODE_VIDEO_BURST flag as it breaks an existing Exynos
> >       board.
> >
> >       Add a new patch to the series to select GENERIC_PHY_MIPI_DPHY in
> >       Kconfig otherwise the build breaks on the 32-bit Exynos.
> >
> >       Change vco_min variable name to min_freq
> >
> >       Added tested-by from Chen-Yu Tsai
> >
> > V2:  Instead of using my packet blanking calculation, this integrates
> >       on from Lucas Stach which gets modified later in the series to
> >       cache the value of the HS-clock instead of having to do the
> >       calucations again.
> >
> >       Instead of completely eliminating the PLL clock frequency from
> >       the device tree, this makes it optional to avoid breaking some
> >       Samsung devices.  When the samsung,pll-clock-frequency is not
> >       found, it reads the value of the clock named "sclk_mipi"
> >       This also maintains backwards compatibility with older device
> >       trees.
> >
> >       This also changes the DPHY calcuation from a Look-up table,
> >       a reverse engineered algorithm which uses
> >       phy_mipi_dphy_get_default_config to determine the standard
> >       nominal values and calculates the cycles necessary to update
> >       the DPHY timings accordingly.
> >
>
> Best regards
> --
> Marek Szyprowski, PhD
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
>