[PATCH v2] drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Refuse DDC/CI transfers on the internal I2C controller

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 1:24 PM Sean Paul <sean at poorly.run> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:19:45AM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > The DDC/CI protocol involves sending a multi-byte request to the
> > display via I2C, which is typically followed by a multi-byte
> > response. The internal I2C controller only allows single byte
> > reads/writes or reads of 8 sequential bytes, hence DDC/CI is not
> > supported when the internal I2C controller is used. The I2C
>
> This is very likely a stupid question, but I didn't see an answer for it, so
> I'll just ask :)
>
> If the controller supports xfers of 8 bytes and 1 bytes, could you just split
> up any of these transactions into len/8+len%8 transactions?

It's not quite that easy, I think.  Specifically a 1-byte transfer
isn't really a 1-byte transfer.

It always sticks this on the wire for a 1-byte write:

Start
Slave address (7 bits) + write (1 bit)
(wait ack)
Register address
1 byte of data
wait for ack
Stop

...or for a 1-byte read:

Start
Slave address (7 bits) + write (1 bit)
(wait ack)
Register address
(wait ack)
Repeated Start (1 bit)
Slave address (7 bits) + read (1 bit)
(read 1 byte of data)
Ack
Stop

Putting more than one of those in a row is not the same thing as just
doing a whole bunch of reads or a whole bunch of writes with no "stop"
in between.

As far as I could find out about DDC/CI it's part of the spec to _not_
send the stop between the reads / writes.


-Doug