Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 20:14:17 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Add initial support for the Rockchip RK3588 HDMI TX
 Controller

Hi Neil:

On 6/3/24 16:55, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> On 01/06/2024 15:12, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>> The RK3588 SoC family integrates a Quad-Pixel (QP) variant of the
>> Synopsys DesignWare HDMI TX controller used in the previous SoCs.
>>
>> It is HDMI 2.1 compliant and supports the following features, among
>> others:
>>
> .
> 
> ..
> 
>> * SCDC I2C DDC access
>> * TMDS Scrambler enabling 2160p@...z with RGB/YCbCr4:4:4
>> * YCbCr4:2:0 enabling 2160p@...z at lower HDMI link speeds
>> * Multi-stream audio
>> * Enhanced Audio Return Channel (EARC)
> -> Those features were already supported by the HDMI 2.0a compliant HW, just
> list the _new_ features for HDMI 2.1
> 
> I did a quick review of your patchset and I don't understand why you need
> to add a separate dw-hdmi-qp.c since you only need simple variants of the I2C
> bus, infoframe and bridge setup.
> 
> Can you elaborate further ? isn't this Quad-Pixel (QP) TX controller version
> detectable at runtime ?
> 
> I would prefer to keep a single dw-hdmi driver if possible.



The QP HDMI controller is a completely different variant with totally different
registers layout, see PATCH 13/14.
I think make it a separate driver will be easier for development and maintenance.
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil
> 
>>
>> This is the last required component that needs to be supported in order
>> to enable the HDMI output functionality on the RK3588 based SBCs, such
>> as the RADXA Rock 5B. The other components are the Video Output
>> Processor (VOP2) and the Samsung IP based HDMI/eDP TX Combo PHY, for
>> which basic support has been already made available via [1] and [2],
>> respectively.
>>
>> The patches are grouped as follows:
>> * PATCH 1..7: DW HDMI TX driver refactor to minimize code duplication in
>>    the new QP driver (no functional changes intended)
>>
>> * PATCH 8..11: Rockchip DW HDMI glue driver cleanup/improvements (no
>>    functional changes intended)
>>
>> * PATCH 12..13: The new DW HDMI QP TX driver reusing the previously
>>    exported functions and structs from existing DW HDMI TX driver
>>
>> * PATCH 14: Rockchip DW HDMI glue driver update to support RK3588 and
>>    make use of DW HDMI QP TX
>>
>> They provide just the basic HDMI support for now, i.e. RGB output up to
>> 4K@...z, without audio, CEC or any of the HDMI 2.1 specific features.
>> Also note the vop2 driver is currently not able to properly handle all
>> display modes supported by the connected screens, e.g. it doesn't cope
>> with non-integer refresh rates.
>>
>> A possible workaround consists of enabling the display controller to
>> make use of the clock provided by the HDMI PHY PLL. This is still work
>> in progress and will be submitted later, as well as the required DTS
>> updates.
>>
>> To facilitate testing and experimentation, all HDMI output related
>> patches, including those part of this series, are available at [3].
>> So far I could only verify this on the RADXA Rock 3A and 5B boards.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cristian
>>
>> [1]: 5a028e8f062f ("drm/rockchip: vop2: Add support for rk3588")
>> [2]: 553be2830c5f ("phy: rockchip: Add Samsung HDMI/eDP Combo PHY driver")
>> [3]: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/linux/-/commits/rk3588-hdmi-bridge-v6.10-rc1
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@...labora.com>
>> ---
>> Cristian Ciocaltea (14):
>>        drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Simplify clock handling
>>        drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Add dw-hdmi-common.h header
>>        drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Commonize dw_hdmi_i2c_adapter()
>>        drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Factor out AVI infoframe setup
>>        drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Factor out vmode setup
>>        drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Factor out hdmi_data_info setup
>>        drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Commonize dw_hdmi_connector_create()
>>        drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Use modern drm_device based logging
>>        drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Simplify clock handling
>>        drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Use devm_regulator_get_enable()
>>        drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Drop superfluous assignments of mpll_cfg, cur_ctr and phy_config
>>        dt-bindings: display: rockchip,dw-hdmi: Add compatible for RK3588
>>        drm/bridge: synopsys: Add DW HDMI QP TX controller driver
>>        drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Add basic RK3588 support
>>
>>   .../display/rockchip/rockchip,dw-hdmi.yaml         | 127 +++-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/Makefile           |   2 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi-common.h   | 179 +++++
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi-qp.c       | 787 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi-qp.h       | 831 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c          | 353 +++------
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw_hdmi-rockchip.c        | 351 +++++++--
>>   include/drm/bridge/dw_hdmi.h                       |   8 +
>>   8 files changed, 2290 insertions(+), 348 deletions(-)
>> ---
>> base-commit: 1613e604df0cd359cf2a7fbd9be7a0bcfacfabd0
>> change-id: 20240601-b4-rk3588-bridge-upstream-a27baff1b8fc
>>
> 

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