[PATCH] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: fix REFCLK setting

Michael Walle mwalle at kernel.org
Wed May 28 13:21:48 UTC 2025


The bridge has three bootstrap pins which are sampled to determine the
frequency of the external reference clock. The driver will also
(over)write that setting. But it seems this is racy after the bridge is
enabled. It was observed that although the driver write the correct
value (by sniffing on the I2C bus), the register has the wrong value.
The datasheet states that the GPIO lines have to be stable for at least
5us after asserting the EN signal. Thus, there seems to be some logic
which samples the GPIO lines and this logic appears to overwrite the
register value which was set by the driver. Waiting 20us after
asserting the EN line resolves this issue.

Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <mwalle at kernel.org>
---
I couldn't find a good commit for a Fixes: tag and I'm not sure how
fixes are handled in drm.

 drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
index 60224f476e1d..fcef43154558 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
@@ -386,6 +386,17 @@ static int __maybe_unused ti_sn65dsi86_resume(struct device *dev)
 
 	gpiod_set_value_cansleep(pdata->enable_gpio, 1);
 
+	/*
+	 * After EN is deasserted and an external clock is detected, the bridge
+	 * will sample GPIO3:1 to determine its frequency. The driver will
+	 * overwrite this setting. But this is racy. Thus we have to wait a
+	 * couple of us. According to the datasheet the GPIO lines has to be
+	 * stable at least 5 us (td5) but it seems that is not enough and the
+	 * refclk frequency value is lost/overwritten by the bridge itself.
+	 * Waiting for 20us seems to work.
+	 */
+	usleep_range(20, 30);
+
 	/*
 	 * If we have a reference clock we can enable communication w/ the
 	 * panel (including the aux channel) w/out any need for an input clock
-- 
2.39.5



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