[PATCH V7 11/12] Documentation: bridge: Add documentation for ps8622 DT properties

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 23/09/14 12:39, Thierry Reding wrote:

> My point is that if you use plain phandles you usually have the
> meta-data already. Referring to the above example, bridge0 knows that it
> should look for a bridge with phandle &bridge1, whereas bridge1 knows
> that the device it is connected to is a panel.

The bridge should not care what kind of device is there on the other
end. The bridge just has an output, going to another video component.

>> Well, I can't say about this particular bridge, but afaik you can
>> connect a parallel RGB signal to multiple panels just like that, without
>> any muxing.
> 
> Right, but in that case you're not reconfiguring the signal in any way
> for each of the panels. You send one single signal to all of them. For

Yes, that's one use case, cloning. But I was not talking about that.

> all intents and purposes there is only one panel. Well, I guess you
> could have separate backlights for the panels. In that case though it
> seems better to represent it at least as a virtual mux or bridge, or
> perhaps a "mux panel".

I was talking about the case where you have two totally different
devices, let's say panels, connected to the same output. One could take
a 16-bit parallel RGB signal, the other 24-bit. Only one of them can  be
enabled at a time (from HW perspective both can be enabled at the same
time, but then the other one shows garbage).

 Tomi


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