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Message-ID: <20180824110713.3c801034@bbrezillon>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:07:13 +0200
From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
To: Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/atmel-hlcdc: allow selecting a higher
pixel-clock that requested
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:55:01 +0200
Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se> wrote:
> But only if the highest pixel-clock frequency lower than requested
> is significantly much less accurate that the lowest frequency higher
> than requested.
>
> I pulled "10 times" as the discriminator out of the hat, and went with
> that.
Okay, let's go with that until we have a way to properly expose display
tolerance.
>
> This is useful, if e.g. the target pixel-clock is 65MHz and the sys_clk
> is 132MHz. In this case the highest possible pixel-clock lower than the
> requested 65MHz is 52.8MHz, which is almost 20% off (and outside the
> spec for the panel). The lowest possible pixel-clock higher than 65MHz
> is 66MHz, which is a *much* better match, and only 1.5% off.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c
> index 71c9cd90d2ae..0c2717ed4ac6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c
> @@ -116,6 +116,19 @@ static void atmel_hlcdc_crtc_mode_set_nofb(struct drm_crtc *c)
> div = DIV_ROUND_UP(prate, mode_rate);
> if (ATMEL_HLCDC_CLKDIV(div) & ~ATMEL_HLCDC_CLKDIV_MASK)
> div = ATMEL_HLCDC_CLKDIV_MASK;
> + } else {
> + int div_low = prate / mode_rate;
> +
> + if (div_low >= 2 &&
> + ((prate / div_low - mode_rate) <
> + 10 * (mode_rate - prate / div)))
> + /*
> + * At least 10 times better when
> + * using a higher frequency than
> + * requested, instead of a lower.
> + * So, go with that.
> + */
> + div = div_low;
> }
>
> cfg |= ATMEL_HLCDC_CLKDIV(div);
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