Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] input: touchscreen: add initial support for Goodix Berlin touchscreen IC

[Neil Armstrong]

Hi,

On 06/06/2023 17:31, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> On 6/6/23 16:31, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> > These touchscreen ICs support SPI, I2C and I3C interface, up to
> > 10 finger touch, stylus and gestures events.
> >
> > This initial driver is derived from the Goodix goodix_ts_berlin
> > available at [1] and [2] and only supports the GT9916 IC
> > present on the Qualcomm SM8550 MTP & QRD touch panel.
> >
> > The current implementation only supports BerlinD, aka GT9916.
> >
> > Support for advanced features like:
> > - Firmware & config update
> > - Stylus events
> > - Gestures events
> > - Previous revisions support (BerlinA or BerlinB)
> > is not included in current version.
> >
> > The current support will work with currently flashed firmware
> > and config, and bail out if firmware or config aren't flashed yet.
>
> What I'm missing here / in the commit msg of
> "input: touchscreen: add core support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC"
>
> is an explanation why this is a new driver instead of adding
> support to the existing goodix.c code.
>
> I assume you have good reasons for this, but it would be good
> if you can write the reasons for this down.

Sure, should I write it down here and/or update the commit message in a new revision ?

Anyway, here's the reasons:
- globally the event handling "looks like" the current goodix.c, but again the offsets
are again different and none of the register address are the same, and unlike the current
support all registers are provided by the "ic_info" structure
- while with the current code it *could* be possible to merge it, with a lot of changes,
the firmware management looks really different, and it would be really hard to merge.

But I may be wrong, and may be misleaded by the goodix driver structure (even if it
went through a really heavy cleaning process).

Globally it seems they tried to match the "event handling" process of the previous
generations, but the firmware interface is completely different.

Neil

> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
>
> > [1] https://github.com/goodix/goodix_ts_berlin
> > [2] https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/la/platform/vendor/opensource/touch-drivers
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Neil Armstrong (4):
> >        dt-bindings: input: document Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC
> >        input: touchscreen: add core support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC
> >        input: touchscreen: add I2C support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC
> >        input: touchscreen: add SPI support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC
> >
> >   .../bindings/input/touchscreen/goodix-berlin.yaml  |  81 ++
> >   drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig                  |  33 +
> >   drivers/input/touchscreen/Makefile                 |   3 +
> >   drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin.h          | 228 +++++
> >   drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin_core.c     | 935 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin_i2c.c      |  76 ++
> >   drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin_spi.c      | 183 ++++
> >   7 files changed, 1539 insertions(+)
> > ---
> > base-commit: 6db29e14f4fb7bce9eb5290288e71b05c2b0d118
> > change-id: 20230606-topic-goodix-berlin-upstream-initial-ba97e8ec8f4c
> >
> > Best regards,