[PATCH v4 00/34] drm/exynos: Refactor parts of the exynos driver

[Andrzej Hajda]

Hi Inki,

On 02/28/2014 03:28 AM, Inki Dae wrote:
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>
> Andrzej Hajda from our team is already working on addressing remaining
> issues with Sean's series, including fixing removed parallel display
> support. Earlier this month he sent a series restoring support for DSI
> panels: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.
>
>  Already merged to internal kernel for test.
>
>> linux.kernel.samsung-soc/27044 . Now he's also trying to make the design
>> more modular. He will give you more information on Monday, as he's on
>> holiday for next two days.
Thanks Tomasz for pointing it out. I try to properly restore parallel
panel support.
I have come to the conclusion that the most natural way is to implement
crtc/encoder/connector in FIMD, as the FIMD directly produces
parallel RGB stream (or I80 in command mode).
I think implementing crtc/encoder/connector in FIMD in case of DSI and
eDP panel
is also more natural. In such case I would convert DSIM, eDP and ptn3460
to drm_panel
framework similarly as I already did for TC358764 DSI/LVDS bridge.

Here are different scenarios of HW pipelines:
1. Parallel panel:
    FIMD ---> Parallel Panel
2. DSI panel:
    FIMD ---> DSIM ---> DSI Panel
3. Arndale:
    FIMD ---> DSIM ---> DSI/LVDS bridge ---> LVDS panel
4. Snow:
    FIMD ---> eDP ---> eDP/LVDS bridge ---> LVDS panel
5. In case mobile image enhancer(MIE) will be used pipeline can be
extended to:
    FIMD ---> MIE ---> DSIM ---> .....
    or
    FIMD ---> MIE ---> eDP ---> .....

Pros of implementing all drm components (crtc,encoder,connector) in
FIMD, and using
drm_panel framework for panels, DSIM, eDP and external bridges:
- it is natural, FIMD produces already encoded stream, DSIM and eDP are
just optional
  converters,
- easy to extend, adding/removing image processors or bridges will
require only changing
  video paths in DTS (in addition to adding device nodes),
- consistency.

What do you think about it?

Anyway the patch adding parallel support with current design should be
ready soon.


Regards
Andrzej