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Message-ID: <20190109122824.vcxpcmiunball5rq@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 14:28:24 +0200
From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
Cc: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
Archit Taneja <architt@...eaurora.org>,
Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Krzysztof Witos <kwitos@...ence.com>,
Rafal Ciepiela <rafalc@...ence.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] phy: Add configuration interface for MIPI D-PHY
devices
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:33:17AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a set of patches to allow the phy framework consumers to test and
> apply runtime configurations.
>
> This is needed to support more phy classes that require tuning based on
> parameters depending on the current use case of the device, in addition to
> the power state management already provided by the current functions.
>
> A first test bed for that API are the MIPI D-PHY devices. There's a number
> of solutions that have been used so far to support these phy, most of the
> time being an ad-hoc driver in the consumer.
>
> That approach has a big shortcoming though, which is that this is quite
> difficult to deal with consumers integrated with multiple variants of phy,
> of multiple consumers integrated with the same phy.
>
> The latter case can be found in the Cadence DSI bridge, and the CSI
> transceiver and receivers. All of them are integrated with the same phy, or
> can be integrated with different phy, depending on the implementation.
>
> I've looked at all the MIPI DSI drivers I could find, and gathered all the
> parameters I could find. The interface should be complete, and most of the
> drivers can be converted in the future. The current set converts two of
> them: the above mentionned Cadence DSI driver so that the v4l2 drivers can
> use them, and the Allwinner MIPI-DSI driver.
>
> Let me know what you think,
> Maxime
>
> Changes from v3
> - Rebased on 5.0-rc1
> - Added the fixes suggested by Sakari
Thanks!
For patches 1--3:
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
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Sakari Ailus
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