[PATCH v3 1/2] drm/bridge: Add Cadence DSI driver

Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen at ti.com
Tue Sep 19 13:38:31 UTC 2017



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On 19/09/17 16:25, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:59:20 +0300
> Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Boris,
>>
>>
>> Texas Instruments Finland Oy, Porkkalankatu 22, 00180 Helsinki. Y-tunnus/Business ID: 0615521-4. Kotipaikka/Domicile: Helsinki
>>
>> On 31/08/17 18:55, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>> Add a driver for Cadence DPI -> DSI bridge.
>>>
>>> This driver only support a subset of Cadence DSI bridge capabilities.
>>>
>>> Here is a non-exhaustive list of missing features:
>>>  * burst mode
>>>  * dynamic configuration of the DPHY based on the
>>>  * support for additional input interfaces (SDI input)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>  
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> +	dsi->pclk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "pclk");
>>> +	if (IS_ERR(dsi->pclk))
>>> +		return PTR_ERR(dsi->pclk);  
>>
>> What's the purpose of pclk? Isn't that normally dealt with the normal
>> modesetting, enabled with the video stream? How could it even be enabled
>> here, without anyone setting the rate?
> 
> It's the peripheral clock, not the pixel clock, and AFAIU it has to be
> enabled before accessing DSI registers.

Is that the dsi_p_clk? I can't find "peripheral clock" in the specs.

I think calling it "pclk" in a display driver is very confusing, as
pclk, at least for me, always means pixel clock =).

 Tomi



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