Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] phy: Add configuration interface for MIPI D-PHY devices

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>]

Hi,

On 05/02/19 2:16 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 03:33:31PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 21/01/19 9:15 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here is a set of patches to allow the phy framework consumers to test and
>>> apply runtime configurations.
>>>
>>> This is needed to support more phy classes that require tuning based on
>>> parameters depending on the current use case of the device, in addition to
>>> the power state management already provided by the current functions.
>>>
>>> A first test bed for that API are the MIPI D-PHY devices. There's a number
>>> of solutions that have been used so far to support these phy, most of the
>>> time being an ad-hoc driver in the consumer.
>>>
>>> That approach has a big shortcoming though, which is that this is quite
>>> difficult to deal with consumers integrated with multiple variants of phy,
>>> of multiple consumers integrated with the same phy.
>>>
>>> The latter case can be found in the Cadence DSI bridge, and the CSI
>>> transceiver and receivers. All of them are integrated with the same phy, or
>>> can be integrated with different phy, depending on the implementation.
>>>
>>> I've looked at all the MIPI DSI drivers I could find, and gathered all the
>>> parameters I could find. The interface should be complete, and most of the
>>> drivers can be converted in the future. The current set converts two of
>>> them: the above mentionned Cadence DSI driver so that the v4l2 drivers can
>>> use them, and the Allwinner MIPI-DSI driver.
>>
>> Can the PHY changes go independently of the consumer drivers? or else I'll need
>> ACKs from the GPU MAINTAINER.
> 
> Maxime is a gpu maintainer, so you're all good :-)

cool.. I've merged all the patches except drm/bridge.

Please see if everything looks okay once it shows up in phy -next (give a day)

Thanks
Kishon
> -Daniel
> 
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kishon
>>
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think,
>>> Maxime
>>>
>>> Changes from v4:
>>>   - Removed regression on the variable calculation
>>>   - Fixed the wakeup unit
>>>   - Collected Sean Acked-by on the last patch
>>>   - Collected Sakari Reviewed-by on the first patch
>>>
>>> Changes from v3
>>>   - Rebased on 5.0-rc1
>>>   - Added the fixes suggested by Sakari
>>>
>>> Changes from v2:
>>>   - Rebased on next
>>>   - Changed the interface to accomodate for the new submodes
>>>   - Changed the timings units from nanoseconds to picoseconds
>>>   - Added minimum and maximum boundaries to the documentation
>>>   - Moved the clock enabling to phy_power_on in the Cadence DPHY driver
>>>   - Exported the phy_configure and phy_validate symbols
>>>   - Rework the phy pll divider computation in the cadence dphy driver
>>>
>>> Changes from v1:
>>>   - Rebased on top of 4.20-rc1
>>>   - Removed the bus mode and timings parameters from the MIPI D-PHY
>>>     parameters, since that shouldn't have any impact on the PHY itself.
>>>   - Reworked the Cadence DSI and D-PHY drivers to take this into account.
>>>   - Remove the mode parameter from phy_configure
>>>   - Added phy_configure and phy_validate stubs
>>>   - Return -EOPNOTSUPP in phy_configure and phy_validate when the operation
>>>     is not implemented
>>>
>>> Maxime Ripard (9):
>>>   phy: dphy: Remove unused header
>>>   phy: dphy: Change units of wakeup and init parameters
>>>   phy: dphy: Clarify lanes parameter documentation
>>>   sun6i: dsi: Convert to generic phy handling
>>>   phy: Move Allwinner A31 D-PHY driver to drivers/phy/
>>>   drm/bridge: cdns: Separate DSI and D-PHY configuration
>>>   dt-bindings: phy: Move the Cadence D-PHY bindings
>>>   phy: Add Cadence D-PHY support
>>>   drm/bridge: cdns: Convert to phy framework
>>>
>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/cdns,dsi.txt |  21 +-
>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/cdns,dphy.txt           |  20 +-
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig                                |   1 +-
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/cdns-dsi.c                             | 538 +------
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Kconfig                                 |   3 +-
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile                                |   5 +-
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun6i_mipi_dphy.c                       | 292 +----
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun6i_mipi_dsi.c                        |  31 +-
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun6i_mipi_dsi.h                        |  17 +-
>>>  drivers/phy/allwinner/Kconfig                                 |  12 +-
>>>  drivers/phy/allwinner/Makefile                                |   1 +-
>>>  drivers/phy/allwinner/phy-sun6i-mipi-dphy.c                   | 318 ++++-
>>>  drivers/phy/cadence/Kconfig                                   |  13 +-
>>>  drivers/phy/cadence/Makefile                                  |   1 +-
>>>  drivers/phy/cadence/cdns-dphy.c                               | 389 +++++-
>>>  drivers/phy/phy-core-mipi-dphy.c                              |   8 +-
>>>  include/linux/phy/phy-mipi-dphy.h                             |  13 +-
>>>  17 files changed, 894 insertions(+), 789 deletions(-)
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/cdns,dphy.txt
>>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun6i_mipi_dphy.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/allwinner/phy-sun6i-mipi-dphy.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/cadence/cdns-dphy.c
>>>
>>> base-commit: bfeffd155283772bbe78c6a05dec7c0128ee500c
>>>
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