New LCD connector type?

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Mon May 9 11:43:02 UTC 2016


Hi Ville,

On Saturday 07 May 2016 21:11:23 Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:01:29PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > (Resending as I couldn't find this message from January in the list
> > archives.)
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > We have a board which has Newhaven Display LCD [1] connected via a
> > what seems to be a custom 40-signal LCD connector. That connector includes
> > (6-bit per component) RGB signals, DISP, H/VSYNC, and the pixel clock
> > signals; in addition, there are I2C and IRQ signals.
> > 
> > Now we need to add support for this kind of connector to the R-Car DU
> > driver in order to get the LCD panel resolution from the device tree (see
> > drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_*con.c for the examples) and so we'd
> > probably need a new DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_* constant in
> > include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h in order to do that... Laurent advised me to
> > ask for the opinions on the dri-devel mailing list first, which I'm
> > doing. :-)
> 
> I'd just make it LVDS.

Even if the connector doesn't carry LVDS signals ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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