[PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: add Silicon Image SiI9234 driver

Fri Aug 11 09:00:43 UTC 2017

Hi Marek,

(now CC'ing Mark Brown with his correct e-mail address)

On Friday 11 Aug 2017 09:00:00 Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On 2017-08-10 16:51, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Friday 04 Aug 2017 08:55:55 Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> Hi Laurent,
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your detailed comments. Maciej resurrected some orphaned code,
> >> which is still useful today (Tomasz has left Samsung a few years ago).
> >> I'm not sure we will be able to answer all your questions without deep
> >> investigation, especially about the driver operation details, but we
> >> will try.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> >> On 2017-08-03 12:24, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 03 Aug 2017 09:45:22 Maciej Purski wrote:
> >>>> SiI9234 transmitter converts eTMDS/HDMI signal to MHL 1.0.
> >>>> It is controlled via I2C bus. Its interaction with other
> >>>> devices in video pipeline is performed mainly on HW level.
> >>>> The only interaction it does on device driver level is
> >>>> filtering-out unsupported video modes, it exposes drm_bridge
> >>>> interface to perform this operation.
> >>>> 
> >>>> This patch is based on the code refactored by Tomasz Stanislawski
> >>>> <t.stanislaws at samsung.com>, which was initially developed by:
> >>>> Adam Hampson <ahampson at sta.samsung.com>
> >>>> Erik Gilling <konkers at android.com>
> >>>> Shankar Bandal <shankar.b at samsung.com>
> >>>> Dharam Kumar <dharam.kr at samsung.com>
> >>>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Maciej Purski <m.purski at samsung.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> 
> >>>>    .../devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/sii9234.txt |   20 +
> >>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig                     |    8 +
> >>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Makefile                    |    1 +
> >>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sii9234.c                   | 1019 ++++++++++
> >>>>    4 files changed, 1048 insertions(+)
> >>>>    create mode 100644
> >>>> 
> >>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/sii9234.txt create
> >>>> mode
> >>>> 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sii9234.c
> >>>> 
> >>>> diff --git
> >>>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/sii9234.txt
> >>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/sii9234.txt new file
> >>>> mode 100644
> >>>> index 0000000..2cdf286
> >>>> --- /dev/null
> >>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/sii9234.txt
> >>> 
> >>> DT reviewers might ask you to submit DT bindings as a separate patch.
> >>> 
> >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> >>>> +SiI9234 Mobile HD Link Transmitter
> >>>> +
> >>>> +Required properties:
> >>>> +- compatible : "sil,sii9234".
> >>>> +- reg : I2C address for TPI interface, use 0x39
> >>>> +- vcc-supply : regulator that supplies the chip
> >>> 
> >>> Is there a single power supply only ? Transceivers usually have at least
> >>> one digital and one analog power supply.
> >> 
> >> Acording to the schematic there are four power supplies used for SII9234
> >> MHL chip in Trats2 board: VSIL_1.2A, VSIL_1.2C, VCC_3.3V_MHL and
> >> VCC_1.8V_MHL. First two are derived directly from VSIL_1.2 signal, which
> >> is modeled as a fixed regulator. The latter two are derived directly from
> >> VBAT using some level converter, which is controlled by the same GPIO pin
> >> as VSIL fixed regulator. Any idea how this should be represented better
> >> in device tree instead of having single vcc-supply?
> > 
> > Without access to the documentation I can only guess, but it looks like
> > VSIL_1.2A and VSIL_1.2C are supposed to be powered from the same power
> > supply rail, possibly with different filters. I think they can be grouped
> > together from a DT binding point of view. The last two supplies seem
> > independent. We should thus probably model this as three separate
> > supplies.
> 
> Okay, I see no problem adding support for all those three supplies, but
> I was wondering how to model them in the device tree, because from the
> software perspective ALL power supplies needed by this chip are enabled by a
> single GPIO line switch.
> 
> I see 3 possible solutions:
> 1. Keep only single vcc supply for now and use fixed gpio regulator for it
> as a provider. Add a comment that it fact it provides 3 different power
> signals.
> 2. Extend fixed gpio regulator driver and bindings so it will be possible to
> have more than one fixed regulator controlled by the same gpio pin.
> 3. Model VCC_3.3V_MHL and VCC_1.8V_MHL providers as "vctrl-regulator" and
> use this VSIL_1.2 as control voltage for them.
> 
> Which one do you prefer?

2 would be best I think, but that's more work. Mark, what do you think ?

> > It would be useful to check in the SII9234 datasheet what power sequence
> > the chip expects. Is there any chance you could find that document ?
> 
> We have access only to the parts of the SII9234 documentation now and
> there is no
> such information there.
> 
> >>>> +- interrupts, interrupt-parent: interrupt specifier of INT pin
> >>>> +- reset-gpios: gpio specifier of RESET pin
> >>> 
> >>> Is this mandatory to connect the reset pin to the SoC ?
> >> 
> >> IMHO yes, the chip has to be reset during the initialization procedure
> >> and doesn't work properly without reset.
> > 
> > OK, I have no issue making the property mandatory then.
> 
> Best regards

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart