[PATCH v2 0/6] eDP: Support probing eDP panels dynamically instead of hardcoding

Douglas Anderson dianders at chromium.org
Fri Jul 30 21:26:19 UTC 2021


The goal of this patch series is to move away from hardcoding exact
eDP panels in device tree files. As discussed in the various patches
in this series (I'm not repeating everything here), most eDP panels
are 99% probable and we can get that last 1% by allowing two "power
up" delays to be specified in the device tree file and then using the
panel ID (found in the EDID) to look up additional power sequencing
delays for the panel.

This patch series is the logical contiunation of a previous patch
series where I proposed solving this problem by adding a
board-specific compatible string [1]. In the discussion that followed
it sounded like people were open to something like the solution
proposed in this new series.

In version 2 I got rid of the idea that we could have a "fallback"
compatible string that we'd use if we didn't recognize the ID in the
EDID. This simplifies the bindings a lot and the implementation
somewhat. As a result of not having a "fallback", though, I'm not
confident in transitioning any existing boards over to this since the
panel will totally fail to work if we don't recognize the ID from the
EDID and I can't guarantee that I've seen every panel that might have
shipped on an existing product. The plan is to use "edp-panel" only on
new boards or new revisions of old boards where we can guarantee that
every EDID that ships out of the factory has an ID in the table.

Version 2 of this series is also rebased upon my other series for the
Samsung ATNA33XC20 panel [2] since they both touch the "delay"
structure and it seems likely that the Samsung panel series will land
first.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/YFKQaXOmOwYyeqvM@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730154605.2843418-1-dianders@chromium.org/

Changes in v2:
- No longer allow fallback to panel-simple.
- Add "-ms" suffix to delays.
- Rebased atop revert of delays between GPIO & regulator
- Don't support a "fallback" panel. Probed panels must be probed.
- Not based on patch to copy "desc"--just allocate for probed panels.
- Add "-ms" suffix to delays.

Douglas Anderson (6):
  dt-bindings: drm/panel-simple: Introduce generic eDP panels
  drm/edid: Break out reading block 0 of the EDID
  drm/edid: Allow the querying/working with the panel ID from the EDID
  drm/panel-simple: Don't re-read the EDID every time we power off the
    panel
  drm/panel-simple: Split the delay structure out of the panel
    description
  drm/panel-simple: Implement generic "edp-panel"s probed by EDID

 .../bindings/display/panel/panel-edp.yaml     | 188 ++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c                    | 113 +++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c          | 352 +++++++++++++-----
 include/drm/drm_edid.h                        |  47 +++
 4 files changed, 586 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-edp.yaml

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