[PATCH 5/6] drm: bridge: samsung-dsim: Support non-burst mode

[Adam Ford]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 3:08 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On 4/17/23 13:57, Adam Ford wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 5:13 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4/15/23 12:41, Adam Ford wrote:
> >>> The high-speed clock is hard-coded to the burst-clock
> >>> frequency specified in the device tree.  However, when
> >>> using devices like certain bridge chips without burst mode
> >>> and varying resolutions and refresh rates, it may be
> >>> necessary to set the high-speed clock dynamically based
> >>> on the desired pixel clock for the connected device.
> >>
> >> The link rate negotiation should happen internally between the nearest
> >> bridge and DSIM, so please add that to DRM core instead of hacking
> >> around it by tweaking the HS clock again.
> >
> > I thought you tried to add something like this before and had some resistance.
>
> Yes, all my attempts were rejected by a single reviewer. I suspended my
> efforts in that area for now.
>
> > The Pixel clock is set by the bridge already without any new code
> > added to the DRM core..  I am just reading that value that's there,
> > and setting the clock accordingly.  I don't see how this is a hack.
>
> Assume you have a DSI-to-HDMI bridge attached to your DSIM bridge, it
> operates in non-burst mode, like ADV7533 . How would you configure the

I have an ADV7535

> HS clock rate for such a bridge in DT ? (hint: you cannot, because the
> required clock comes from the EDID, which may not be available just yet)

The whole idea is that you wouldn't want to or need to configure the
clock speed in the device tree because it comes from the
EDID->bridge->DSI.

I've tested this configuration on imx8mm, imx8mn, and imx8mp and I can
change the resolution and refresh rate on the fly and the DSI will
automatically readjust accordingly.   If you fixed the clock in the
device tree, you wouldn't be able to do that, and that was the point
of this patch.


adam