[PATCH 7/15] dt-bindings: display: sun4i: Add allwinner, tcon-channel property

Chen-Yu Tsai wens at csie.org
Wed Mar 8 03:38:48 UTC 2017


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> The Allwinner Timings Controller has two, mutually exclusive, channels.
> When the binding has been introduced, it was assumed that there would be
> only a single user per channel in the system.
>
> While this is likely for the channel 0 which only connects to LCD displays,
> it turns out that the channel 1 can be connected to multiple controllers in
> the SoC (HDMI and TV encoders for example). And while the simultaneous use
> of HDMI and TV outputs cannot be achieved, switching from one to the other
> at runtime definitely sounds plausible.
>
> Add an extra property, allwinner,tcon-channel, to specify for a given
> endpoint which TCON channel it is connected to, while falling back to the
> previous mechanism if that property is missing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>


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