[PATCH 0/2] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: add HDMI device tree nodes

From: Barzin Lotfabadi

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 17:33:44 EST


Hi all,

These two patches add the device tree nodes needed for HDMI output on the
Allwinner H616 family. Tested on an Orange Pi Zero 3 (H618, 4GB), which
drives a 1920x1080@60Hz desktop with these applied.

Mainline already has DE33 mixer support in the sun4i driver, but there are
no display nodes at all in sun50i-h616.dtsi, so nothing probes. Ryan
Walklin's "arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: add LCD timing controller and
display engine support" series adds the display engine, bus, mixer and TCON
nodes, but states that HDMI output is not provided. These patches are the
missing HDMI half.

Every register address, clock index and reset line was read out of the
vendor device tree shipped with the board and translated to the mainline
dt-bindings macros; the clock and reset numbering was verified identical
between the vendor and mainline CCU headers before substitution.

Two things I would appreciate guidance on:

1. Patch 1 currently also adds the display engine, bus, mixer and TCON
nodes, because Ryan's series has not landed and the HDMI nodes need
something to attach to. If his series is merged first, I am happy to
respin this as an HDMI-only delta on top of it. That is probably the
right shape; I did not want to post a series that applies to nothing in
the meantime.

2. These nodes alone are not sufficient for a picture. Two driver changes
are also needed: an H616 variant in sun8i_hdmi_phy.c (only
a83t/h3/r40/a64/h6 exist today), and setting the TCON pad select bit in
sun4i_tcon.c. Both exist in the Armbian sunxi-6.12 tree, authored by
The-going. I have deliberately not included them here, because I cannot
provide a Signed-off-by on another developer's work. If someone in a
position to carry those forward would like to, I am happy to help test.
Without them these nodes probe but produce no output.

checkpatch is clean apart from one 103-column warning on a remote-endpoint
line in patch 1; the identical construct at the same width already exists in
sun50i-h6.dtsi:183, so I left it matching the surrounding convention.

One implementation note worth recording, since it cost a boot cycle: the
DE33 mixer's three register regions must be named "layers", "top" and
"display". The driver fetches the latter two by name, so a wrong name here
surfaces as "invalid resource (null)" and a -EINVAL bind failure several
layers away from the cause.

Result on the board, with the two driver patches also applied:

sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1100000.mixer (ops sun8i_mixer_ops)
sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 6510000.tcon-top (ops sun8i_tcon_top_ops)
sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 6515000.lcd-controller (ops sun4i_tcon_ops)
sun8i-dw-hdmi 6000000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller v2.12a with HDCP
sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 6000000.hdmi (ops sun8i_dw_hdmi_ops)
[drm] Initialized sun4i-drm 1.0.0 for display-engine on minor 0

with the connector reading "connected", EDID read correctly from the sink,
and 1920x1080 among the reported modes.

Full boot logs, the decompiled vendor device tree the nodes were derived
from, and a photo of the running desktop are at:

https://github.com/BarzinL/h616-hdmi-mainline

Based on mainline a500db7819c5.

Barzin Lotfabadi (2):
arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: add display engine and HDMI nodes
arm64: dts: allwinner: orangepi-zero3: enable HDMI output

arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616.dtsi | 191 +++++++++++++++++++++
.../dts/allwinner/sun50i-h618-orangepi-zero3.dts | 25 +++
2 files changed, 216 insertions(+)

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