Re: [PATCH 0/2] Extending PLL LUT for i.MX8MP Samsung HDMI PHY

[Frieder Schrempf]

On 11.09.24 03:27, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Adam Ford wrote on Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:16:04PM -0500:
> > > That aside, I see no problem with this, just one meta-comment about
> > > adding a link to the script in an external repo: I see some other
> > > drivers have python scripts in their trees e.g.
> > > drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_routing/tools/*py
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/update-xfails.py
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/msm/registers/gen_header.py
> > >
> > > would it make sense to commit the script here instead of linking to a
> > > repo that might be lost in the future?
> > >
> > > I'm not quite sure what policy the linux repo has here, so leaving that
> > > as an open question.
> >
> > Is there a reason this couldn't be coded in C and used to expand my
> > integer calculator series?  With that, we could drop the lookup table.
>
> Quoting a previous mail from Frieder:
> > I will clean things up a bit and then share what I have. I hope that this
> > allows anyone to calculate parameters for their non-standard displays if
> > required.
> >
> > If someone feels extra motivated they could try to calculate the fractional
> > parameters at runtime. However I'm not sure that this is feasible. The
> > numerical computation of a large number of parameters is quite heavy and it's
> > probably not easy to strip the algorithm down to something that can be run on
> > the target without too much overhead.
>
> Trying a random frequency with the algorithm he has implemented it
> easily takes 10 seconds to run on my imx8mp board, so even if we asssume
> C is 3-4 times faster I think the current algorithm is too slow for
> runtime and it makes more sense to extended the LUT to me (as long as
> the values can be & are checked at least once, which we now can)
>
> The current algorithm brute-forces its way through so there could be a
> better way of computing the fractional part of the divider, but I'm not
> sure it's worth the effort at this point; I guess it's a good
> intellectual challenge though so someone might do it in the future.

Second this. My algorithm is far from optimal and there might be more 
elegant solutions. If anyone feels like creating something that can be 
added to the driver that would be interesting and welcome for sure.