[PATCHv2 1/3] dt-bindings: display: Intel FPGA VIP drm driver Devicetree bindings

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Apr 28 18:32:26 UTC 2017


On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:06:44AM +0800, hean.loong.ong at intel.com wrote:
> From: "Ong, Hean Loong" <hean.loong.ong at intel.com>
> 
> Device tree binding for Intel FPGA Video and Image
> Processing Suite. The binding involved would be generated
> from the Altera (Intel) Qsys system. The bindings would
> set the max width, max height, buts per pixel and memory
> port width. The device tree binding only supports the Intel
> Arria10 devkit and its variants. Vendor name retained as
> altr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ong, Hean Loong <hean.loong.ong at intel.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Moved Device Tree bindings to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/
> * Added vendor name altr, to description
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/display/altr,vip-fb2.txt   | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/altr,vip-fb2.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/altr,vip-fb2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/altr,vip-fb2.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..bdffefb
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/altr,vip-fb2.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +Intel Video and Image Processing(VIP) Frame Buffer II bindings
> +
> +Supported hardware: Arria 10 and above with display port IP
> +
> +The drm driver for the Arria 10 devkit would require the display resolution

Bindings describe h/w. DRM driver is a Linux term.

> +and pixel information to be included as these values are generated based
> +on the FPGA design that drives the video connector attached to the drm driver
> +Information the FPGA video IP component can be acquired from
> +https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/pdfs/literature/ug/ug_vip.pdf
> +
> +Required properties:
> +
> +- compatible: "altr,vip-frame-buffer-2.0"
> +- reg: Physical base address and length of the framebuffer controller's
> +  registers.
> +- altr,max-width: The width of the framebuffer in pixels.
> +- altr,max-height: The height of the framebuffer in pixels.
> +- altr,bits-per-symbol: only "8" is currently supported

Supported in the driver or IP? The former isn't relevant to the binding. 
In the latter case, you don't need it if that's the only thing 
supported.

> +- altr,mem-port-width = the bus width of the avalon master port on the frame reader

In bits or bytes?

> +
> +Example:
> +
> +	dp_0_frame_buf: vip at 100000280 {
> +			compatible = "altr,vip-frame-buffer-2.0";
> +			reg = <0x00000001 0x00000280 0x00000040>;
> +			altr,max-width = <1280>;
> +			altr,max-height = <720>;
> +			altr,bits-per-symbol = <8>;
> +			altr,mem-port-width = <128>;
> +	};
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 


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