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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 20:17:49 -0400
From:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:	Inki Dae <inki.dae@...sung.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>, Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
	Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/exynos: don't use HW trigger for Exynos5420/5422/5800

Hello Inki,

Thanks for your feedback.

On 06/08/2016 07:09 PM, Inki Dae wrote:
> Hi Javier,
> 
> 2016년 06월 02일 23:20에 Javier Martinez Canillas 이(가) 쓴 글:
>> Commit a6f75aa161c5 ("drm/exynos: fimd: add HW trigger support") added
>> hardware trigger support to the FIMD controller driver. But this broke
>> the display in at least the Exynos5800 Peach Pi Chromebook.
>>
>> So until the issue is fixed, avoid using HW trigger for the Exynos5420
>> based boards and use SW trigger as it was before the mentioned commit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Hello Inki,
>>
>> Since commit a6f75aa161c5 landed in v4.7-rc1, I think $SUBJECT should be
>> picked to make sure that v4.7 is released with the display working for
>> the Exynos5420 based Chromebooks.
>>
>> We can then figure out what's wrong with the HW trigger support and fix
>> it for v4.8.
> 
> Agree. And below is a trivial comment.
>

I'm glad that you agree.

>>
>> Best regards,
>> Javier
>>
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fimd.c | 3 ---
>>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fimd.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fimd.c
>> index 1c23a8ff5e83..f10030ff00e6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fimd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fimd.c
>> @@ -170,14 +170,11 @@ static struct fimd_driver_data exynos5420_fimd_driver_data = {
>>  	.lcdblk_vt_shift = 24,
>>  	.lcdblk_bypass_shift = 15,
>>  	.lcdblk_mic_bypass_shift = 11,
>> -	.trg_type = I80_HW_TRG,
>>  	.has_shadowcon = 1,
>>  	.has_vidoutcon = 1,
>>  	.has_vtsel = 1,
>>  	.has_mic_bypass = 1,
>>  	.has_dp_clk = 1,
>> -	.has_hw_trigger = 1,
>> -	.has_trigger_per_te = 1,
> 
> We don't need to remove above two lines. It would be enough to remove 'trg_type = I80_HW_TRG', which makes FIMD to be worked with SW trigger in default.
>

I know that removing .trg_type is enough but I also removed those lines
because the fields are not used if .trg_type != I80_HW_TRG. So there is
no point to leave a set for unused fields.

We can latter add those one HW trigger support is fixed for Exynos5420.

> Thanks,
> Inki Dae
> 
>>  };
>>  
>>  struct fimd_context {
>>
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Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America