[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH v2 11/27] drm/sun4i: tcon: Add support for tcon-top gate

[Jernej Škrabec]

Dne petek, 15. junij 2018 ob 19:13:17 CEST je Chen-Yu Tsai napisal(a):
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 12:41 AM, Jernej Škrabec
> 
> <jernej.skrabec at siol.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Dne petek, 15. junij 2018 ob 10:31:10 CEST je Maxime Ripard napisal(a):
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:00:20PM +0200, Jernej Skrabec wrote:
> >> > TV TCONs connected to TCON TOP have to enable additional gate in order
> >> > to work.
> >> > 
> >> > Add support for such TCONs.
> >> > 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec at siol.net>
> >> > ---
> >> > 
> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c | 11 +++++++++++
> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.h |  4 ++++
> >> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >> > 
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c
> >> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c index 08747fc3ee71..0afb5a94a414
> >> > 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c
> >> > @@ -688,6 +688,16 @@ static int sun4i_tcon_init_clocks(struct device
> >> > *dev,
> >> > 
> >> >             dev_err(dev, "Couldn't get the TCON bus clock\n");
> >> >             return PTR_ERR(tcon->clk);
> >> >     
> >> >     }
> >> > 
> >> > +
> >> > +   if (tcon->quirks->has_tcon_top_gate) {
> >> > +           tcon->top_clk = devm_clk_get(dev, "tcon-top");
> >> > +           if (IS_ERR(tcon->top_clk)) {
> >> > +                   dev_err(dev, "Couldn't get the TCON TOP bus
> >> > clock\n");
> >> > +                   return PTR_ERR(tcon->top_clk);
> >> > +           }
> >> > +           clk_prepare_enable(tcon->top_clk);
> >> > +   }
> >> > +
> >> 
> >> Is it required for the TCON itself to operate, or does the TCON
> >> requires the TCON TOP, which in turn requires that clock to be
> >> functional?
> >> 
> >> I find it quite odd to have a clock that isn't meant for a particular
> >> device to actually be wired to another device. I'm not saying this
> >> isn't the case, but it would be a first.
> > 
> > Documentation doesn't say much about that gate. I did few tests and TCON
> > registers can be read and written even if TCON TOP TV TCON gate is
> > disabled. However, there is no image, as expected.
> 
> The R40 manual does include it in the diagram, on page 504. There's also a
> mux to select whether the clock comes directly from the CCU or the TV
> encoder (a feedback mode?). I assume this is the gate you are referring to
> here, in which case it is not a bus clock, but rather the TCON module or
> channel clock, strangely routed.
> 
> > More interestingly, I enabled test pattern directly in TCON to eliminate
> > influence of the mixer. As soon as I disabled that gate, test pattern on
> > HDMI screen was gone, which suggest that this gate influences something
> > inside TCON.
> > 
> > Another test I did was that I moved enable/disable gate code to
> > sun4i_tcon_channel_set_status() and it worked just as well.
> > 
> > I'll ask AW engineer what that gate actually does, but from what I saw, I
> > would say that most appropriate location to enable/disable TCON TOP TV
> > TCON
> > gate is TCON driver. Alternatively, TCON TOP driver could check if any TV
> > TCON is in use and enable appropriate gate. However, that doesn't sound
> > right to me for some reason.
> 
> If what I said above it true, then yes, the appropriate location to enable
> it is the TCON driver, but moreover, the representation of the clock tree
> should be fixed such that the TCON takes the clock from the TCON TOP as its
> channel/ module clock instead. That way you don't need this patch, but
> you'd add another for all the clock routing.

Can you be more specific? I not sure what you mean here.

Best regards,
Jernej