[PATCH v3 6/9] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Use 18-bit DP if we can

Fri Jul 10 03:43:18 UTC 2020

On 7/9/20 10:17 PM, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
>
> On 7/9/20 10:12 PM, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
>>
>> On 7/9/20 9:14 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:38 PM Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:19 PM Steev Klimaszewski 
>>>> <steev at gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been testing 5.8 and linux-next on the Lenovo Yoga C630, and 
>>>>> with this patch applied, there is really bad banding on the display.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm really bad at explaining it, but you can see the differences 
>>>>> in the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> 24bit (pre-5.8) - https://dev.gentoo.org/~steev/files/image0.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> 18bit (5.8/linux-next) - 
>>>>> https://dev.gentoo.org/~steev/files/image1.jpg
>>>> Presumably this means that your panel is defined improperly? If the
>>>> panel reports that it's a 6 bits per pixel panel but it's actually an
>>>> 8 bits per pixel panel then you'll run into this problem.
>>>>
>>>> I would have to assume you have a bunch of out of tree patches to
>>>> support your hardware since I don't see any device trees in linuxnext
>>>> (other than cheza) that use this bridge chip.  Otherwise I could try
>>>> to check and confirm that was the problem.
>>> Ah, interesting.  Maybe you have the panel:
>>>
>>> boe,nv133fhm-n61
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell from the datasheet (I have the similar
>>> boe,nv133fhm-n62) this is a 6bpp panel.  ...but if you feed it 8bpp
>>> the banding goes away!  Maybe the panel itself knows how to dither???
>>> ...or maybe the datasheet / edid are wrong and this is actually an
>>> 8bpp panel.  Seems unlikely...
>>>
>>> In any case, one fix is to pick
>>> <https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/1593087419-903-1-git-send-email-kalyan_t@codeaurora.org/>, 
>>>
>>> though right now that patch is only enabled for sc7180.  Maybe you
>>> could figure out how to apply it to your hardware?
>>>
>>> ...another fix would be to pretend that your panel is 8bpp even though
>>> it's actually 6bpp.  Ironically if anyone ever tried to configure BPP
>>> from the EDID they'd go back to 6bpp.  You can read the EDID of your
>>> panel with this:
>>>
>>> bus=$(i2cdetect -l | grep sn65 | sed 's/i2c-\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/')
>>> i2cdump ${bus} 0x50 i
>>>
>>> When I do that and then decode it on the "boe,nv133fhm-n62" panel, I 
>>> find:
>>>
>>> 6 bits per primary color channel
>>>
>>> -Doug
>>
>>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> Decoding it does show be to boe,nv133fhm-n61 - and yeah it does say 
>> it's 6-bit according to panelook's specs for it.

I derped again...

root at c630:~# bus=$(i2cdetect -l | grep sn65 | sed 's/i2c-$[0-9]*$.*$/\1/')
root at c630:~# i2cdump ${bus} 0x50 i > edid
WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse!
I will probe file /dev/i2c-16, address 0x50, mode i2c block
Continue? [Y/n]
root at c630:~# edid-decode edid
edid-decode (hex):

00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 09 e5 d1 07 00 00 00 00
01 1c 01 04 a5 1d 11 78 0a 1d b0 a6 58 54 9e 26
0f 50 54 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 c0 39 80 18 71 38 28 40 30 20
36 00 26 a5 10 00 00 1a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1a 00 00 00 fe 00 42
4f 45 20 43 51 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 fe
00 4e 56 31 33 33 46 48 4d 2d 4e 36 31 0a 00 9a

03 26 0a 77 ab 1c 05 71 6f 1d 8c f1 43 ce 6a bb
fb d3 11 20 39 07 22 6e 65 68 77 70 d3 05 34 73
44 21 8b fd f5 6d 11 62 94 2a 7c fa 93 ba 6a 61
92 da 15 53 4c 39 eb f7 86 23 97 48 e9 39 09 d2
66 02 70 bb e2 77 0f 4a a3 a0 4c 72 6e 5d 47 70
43 c2 13 f3 b2 d9 b9 78 02 be 41 82 15 6a 28 dc
45 0f 9d eb 0f 2a cc e8 35 8d 34 7f 3e 84 5e a3
30 5e 1e 29 0a 48 0c d1 0a c4 08 31 03 a9 3b 29

----------------

EDID version: 1.4
Manufacturer: BOE Model 2001 Serial Number 0
Made in week 1 of 2018
Digital display
8 bits per primary color channel
DisplayPort interface
Maximum image size: 29 cm x 17 cm
Gamma: 2.20
Supported color formats: RGB 4:4:4, YCrCb 4:4:4
First detailed timing includes the native pixel format and preferred 
refresh rate
Color Characteristics
   Red:   0.6484, 0.3447
   Green: 0.3310, 0.6181
   Blue:  0.1503, 0.0615
   White: 0.3125, 0.3281
Established Timings I & II: none
Standard Timings: none
Detailed mode: Clock 147.840 MHz, 294 mm x 165 mm
                1920 1968 2000 2200 ( 48  32 200)
                1080 1083 1089 1120 (  3   6  31)
                +hsync -vsync
                VertFreq: 60.000 Hz, HorFreq: 67.200 kHz
Manufacturer-Specified Display Descriptor (0x00): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1a  ................
Alphanumeric Data String: BOE CQ
Alphanumeric Data String: NV133FHM-N61
Checksum: 0x9a

----------------

Unknown EDID Extension Block 0x03
   03 26 0a 77 ab 1c 05 71 6f 1d 8c f1 43 ce 6a bb .&.w...qo...C.j.
   fb d3 11 20 39 07 22 6e 65 68 77 70 d3 05 34 73  ... 9."nehwp..4s
   44 21 8b fd f5 6d 11 62 94 2a 7c fa 93 ba 6a 61 D!...m.b.*|...ja
   92 da 15 53 4c 39 eb f7 86 23 97 48 e9 39 09 d2 ...SL9...#.H.9..
   66 02 70 bb e2 77 0f 4a a3 a0 4c 72 6e 5d 47 70 f.p..w.J..Lrn]Gp
   43 c2 13 f3 b2 d9 b9 78 02 be 41 82 15 6a 28 dc C......x..A..j(.
   45 0f 9d eb 0f 2a cc e8 35 8d 34 7f 3e 84 5e a3 E....*..5.4.>.^.
   30 5e 1e 29 0a 48 0c d1 0a c4 08 31 03 a9 3b 29 0^.).H.....1..;)
Checksum: 0x29 (should be 0x82)

- My edid does in fact say it's 8bit