[RESEND PATCH v3 06/11] drm: add DT bindings documentation for atmel-hlcdc-dc driver

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 05:43:34PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
[...]
> > > > > > + - atmel,panel: Should contain a phandle with 2 parameters.
> > > > > > +   The first cell is a phandle to a DRM panel device
> > > > > > +   The second cell encodes the RGB mode, which can take the following values:
> > > > > > +   * 0: RGB444
> > > > > > +   * 1: RGB565
> > > > > > +   * 2: RGB666
> > > > > > +   * 3: RGB888
> > > > > 
> > > > > These are properties of the panel and should be obtained from the panel
> > > > > directly rather than an additional cell in this specifier.
> > > > 
> > > > Okay.
> > > > What's the preferred way of doing this ?
> > > > What about defining an rgb-mode property in the panel node.
> > > 
> > > There's .bpc in struct drm_display_info, I suspect that it could be used
> > > for this. Alternatively, maybe we could extend the list of color formats
> > > that go into drm_display_info.color_formats? RGB444 is already covered.
> > 
> 
> I forgot to ask about bpc meaning. If, as I think, it means "bits per
> color" then it cannot be used to encode RGB565 where green color is
> encoded on 6 bits and red and blue are encoded on 5 bits. 

Yes, I agree that bps is not a good fit for what you need here.

Thierry
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