Re: [PATCH v5 07/17] drm/sun4i: sun6i_mipi_dsi: Refactor vertical video start delay

[Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:19 PM Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 09:47:19PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > Video start delay can be computed by subtracting total vertical
> > timing with front porch timing and with adding 1 delay line for TCON.
> >
> > BSP code form BPI-M64-bsp is computing video start delay as
> > (from linux-sunxi/
> > drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/disp/de/lowlevel_sun50iw1/de_dsi.c)
> >
> > u32 vfp = panel->lcd_vt - panel->lcd_y - panel->lcd_vbp;
> > => (panel->lcd_vt) - panel->lcd_y - (panel->lcd_vbp)
> > => (timmings->ver_front_porch + panel->lcd_vbp + panel->lcd_y)
> >    - panel->lcd_y - (panel->lcd_vbp)
> > => timmings->ver_front_porch + panel->lcd_vbp + panel->lcd_y
> >                            - panel->lcd_y - panel->lcd_vbp
> > => timmings->ver_front_porch
> >
> > So, update the start delay computation accordingly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
>
> Even though it's a bit better now on my A33 board and I don't have the
> white stripes on the bottom of the display, there's still some
> flickering with your patches applied.
>
> Bisecting it seems to point at that patch, but reverting it doesn't
> make the issue go away, so it's not really clear which one exactly is
> at fault.

Is reverting this patch, work fine or not?

This patch is trying to make use of front porch instead of existing
back porch to compute the delay. Since we revert the VBP fix patch[1]
to assume VBP as VFP value look like your setup would also require to
revert this change. But as per BSP or drm_mode details all of my
displays even work with and w/o reverting these two.

I'm thinking your display should work in the same behavior since the
dsi controller making this route.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10680309/