[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v7 2/4] drm/panel: set display info in panel attach

[dbasehore .]

Hi Sam, thanks for pointing out the potential conflict.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:19 AM Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Derek.
>
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 07:16:57PM -0700, Derek Basehore wrote:
> > Devicetree systems can set panel orientation via a panel binding, but
> > there's no way, as is, to propagate this setting to the connector,
> > where the property need to be added.
> > To address this, this patch sets orientation, as well as other fixed
> > values for the panel, in the drm_panel_attach function. These values
> > are stored from probe in the drm_panel struct.
>
> This approch seems to conflict with work done by Laurent where the
> ownership/creation of the connector will be moved to the display controller.
>
> If I understand it correct then there should not be a 1:1 relation
> between a panel and a connector anymore.


Can you point me to this work? I still see the lone drm_display_info
struct in the drm_connector struct. This seems to indicate that the
kernel still assume one display per connector.

>
> We should not try to work in two different directions with this.
> Laurent, can you comment on this?
>
> If we move forard with this patch, then all fields in drm_panel needs
> kernel-doc - preferably inline.
>
>         Sam
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Derek Basehore <dbasehore at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/drm/drm_panel.h     | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
> > index 169bab54d52d..ca01095470a9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
> > @@ -104,11 +104,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_panel_remove);
> >   */
> >  int drm_panel_attach(struct drm_panel *panel, struct drm_connector *connector)
> >  {
> > +     struct drm_display_info *info;
> > +
> >       if (panel->connector)
> >               return -EBUSY;
> >
> >       panel->connector = connector;
> >       panel->drm = connector->dev;
> > +     info = &connector->display_info;
> > +     info->width_mm = panel->width_mm;
> > +     info->height_mm = panel->height_mm;
> > +     info->bpc = panel->bpc;
> > +     info->panel_orientation = panel->orientation;
> > +     info->bus_flags = panel->bus_flags;
> > +     if (panel->bus_formats)
> > +             drm_display_info_set_bus_formats(&connector->display_info,
> > +                                              panel->bus_formats,
> > +                                              panel->num_bus_formats);
> >
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> > @@ -128,6 +140,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_panel_attach);
> >   */
> >  int drm_panel_detach(struct drm_panel *panel)
> >  {
> > +     struct drm_display_info *info;
> > +
> > +     if (!panel->connector)
> > +             goto out;
> > +
> > +     info = &panel->connector->display_info;
> > +     info->width_mm = 0;
> > +     info->height_mm = 0;
> > +     info->bpc = 0;
> > +     info->panel_orientation = DRM_MODE_PANEL_ORIENTATION_UNKNOWN;
> > +     info->bus_flags = 0;
> > +     kfree(info->bus_formats);
> > +     info->bus_formats = NULL;
> > +     info->num_bus_formats = 0;
> > +
> > +out:
> >       panel->connector = NULL;
> >       panel->drm = NULL;
> >
> > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_panel.h b/include/drm/drm_panel.h
> > index fc7da55f41d9..a6a881b987dd 100644
> > --- a/include/drm/drm_panel.h
> > +++ b/include/drm/drm_panel.h
> > @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ enum drm_panel_orientation;
> >   * struct drm_panel_funcs - perform operations on a given panel
> >   * @disable: disable panel (turn off back light, etc.)
> >   * @unprepare: turn off panel
> > + * @detach: detach panel->connector (clear internal state, etc.)
> > + * @attach: attach panel->connector (update internal state, etc.)
> >   * @prepare: turn on panel and perform set up
> >   * @enable: enable panel (turn on back light, etc.)
> >   * @get_modes: add modes to the connector that the panel is attached to and
> > @@ -95,6 +97,18 @@ struct drm_panel {
> >
> >       const struct drm_panel_funcs *funcs;
> >
> > +     /*
> > +      * panel information to be set in the connector when the panel is
> > +      * attached.
> > +      */
> > +     unsigned int width_mm;
> > +     unsigned int height_mm;
> > +     unsigned int bpc;
> > +     int orientation;
> > +     const u32 *bus_formats;
> > +     unsigned int num_bus_formats;
> > +     u32 bus_flags;
> > +
> >       struct list_head list;
> >  };
> >
> > --
> > 2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
> >
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