[PATCH 1/2] drm/panel: Add and fill drm_panel type field

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at collabora.com
Fri Aug 23 11:26:18 UTC 2019


On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:30:07 +0000
<Nicolas.Ferre at microchip.com> wrote:

> Hi Laurent,
> 
> On 23/08/2019 at 03:40, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Add a type field to the drm_panel structure to report the panel type,
> > using DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_* macros (the values that make sense are LVDS,
> > eDP, DSI and DPI). This will be used to initialise the corresponding
> > connector type.  
> 
> With Microchip/Atmel driver, we mainly (only) use the "Unknown" type of 
> connector because our hardware simply uses RGB wires in parallel.
> 
> Should we move to another connector type (maybe now that it's created 
> and it was not, back when we chose the "Unknown" one)?

I confirm, DRM_MODE_ENCODER_DPI was not defined when I switched from
_LVDS (which was wrong) to _Unknown.


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