[PATCH v4 04/11] drm/bridge: Make the bridge chain a double-linked list

[Boris Brezillon]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:31:11 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote:

> Hi Boris.
> 
> > Just a reminder of my 2 proposals:
> > 
> > 1/ implement the bridge_ops->pre_enable/post_disable() hooks so you can
> >    split your enable/disable logic in 2 parts and make sure things are
> >    ready when the panel/next bridge tries to send DSI commands
> > 2/ move everything that's needed to send DSI commands out of the  
> >    ->enable() path (maybe in runtime PM resume/suspend hooks) so you  
> >    can call that in the DSI transfer path too
> > 
> > As pointed out by Laurent, #1 doesn't work because some panel drivers
> > send DSI commands in their ->prepare() hook, and ->pre_enable() methods
> > are called in reverse order, meaning that the DRM panel bridge driver
> > would try to issue DSI commands before the DSI host controllers is ready
> > to send them. I still thing #2 is a good option.  
> 
> Jitao Shi suggested to extend panels so we had a sequence of:
> 
>   prepare_power()  <= new callback,
>                    here one should NOT be allowed to send
>                    DSI commands
>   prepare()
>   enable()
> 
>    #
>    # panel is now ready to show your favourite christmas movie
>    #
> 
>   disable()
>   unprepare()
>   unprepare_power()  <= new callback
> 
> 
> Would this help implement what you suggest above?
> Relevant panels would then have to be updated - but this
> is doable.

I didn't look at Jitao's proposal but it looks like it's addressing a
similar issue on the DSI slave/device side: the device probably needs
to be powered before the host can interact with it through the DSI+DPHY
bus. I'm not entirely sure why we'd need another hook to do that since
we already have the ->prepare() one.