Re: [PATCH v6 00/13] Add support for PinePhone LCD panel

["Guido Günther" <guido.gunther@puri.sm>]

Hi,
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:31:13PM +0200, Ondrej Jirman wrote:
> This patchset adds support for the LCD panel of PinePhone.

I gave this a quick spin on the Librem5 devkit so

Tested-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

but please also adjust MAINTAINERS so we stay in the loop on driver
changes.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> I've tested this on PinePhone 1.0 and 1.2.
> 
> Please take a look.
> 
> thank you and regards,
>   Ondrej Jirman
> 
> Changes in v6:
> - Fixed spacing in yaml
> - Fixed wrong vccio->iovcc supply name in the bindings doc
> - I noticed that the original driver uses a delay of 20ms in the init
>   function to achieve a combined total of 120ms required from post-reset
>   to display_on. I've added a similar delay to xbd599_init, so that
>   xbd599 panel also has the right timing. (patch 9)
> - v5->v6 diff: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/v5-v6.patch
> - Added review/ack tags
> - Learned to run dt_binding_check by myself ;)
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - rewritten on top of rocktech-jh057n00900 driver
> - rocktech-jh057n00900 renamed to st7703 (controller name)
> - converted rocktech-jh057n00900 bindings to yaml and extended for xbd599
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - use ->type from the mode instead of hardcoding (Samuel)
> - move init_sequence to ->prepare (Samuel)
> - move anti-flicker delay to ->enable, explain it (Samuel)
> - add enter_sleep after display_off (Samuel)
> - drop ->disable (move code to ->unprepare)
> - add ID bytes dumping (Linus)
>   (I can't test it since allwinner DSI driver has a broken
>    dcs_read function, and I didn't manage to fix it.)
> - document magic bytes (Linus)
> - assert reset during powerup
> - cleanup powerup timings according to the datasheet
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Panel driver renamed to the name of the LCD controller
> - Re-organize the driver slightly to more easily support more panels
>   based on the same controller.
> - Add patch to enable the touchscreen to complete the LCD support
>   on PinePhone.
> - Dropped the "DSI fix" patch (the driver seems to work for me without it)
> - Improved brightness levels handling:
>   - PinePhone 1.0 uses default levels generated by the driver
>   - On PinePhone 1.1 duty cycles < 20% lead to black screen, so
>     default levels can't be used. Martijn Braam came up with a
>     list of duty cycle values that lead to perception of linear
>     brigtness level <-> light intensity on PinePhone 1.1
> - There was some feedback on v2 about this being similar to st7701.
>   It's only similar in name. Most of the "user commands" are different,
>   so I opted to keep this in a new driver instead of creating st770x.
>   
>   Anyone who likes to check the differences, here are datasheets:
> 
>   - https://megous.com/dl/tmp/ST7703_DS_v01_20160128.pdf
>   - https://megous.com/dl/tmp/ST7701.pdf
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - DT Example fix.
> - DT Format fix.
> - Raised copyright info to 2020.
> - Sort panel operation functions.
> - Sort inclusion.
> 
> 
> -- For phone owners: --
> 
> There's an open question on how to set the backlight brightness values
> on post 1.0 revision phone, since lower duty cycles (< 10-20%) lead
> to backlight being black. It would be nice if more people can test
> the various backlight levels on 1.1 and 1.2 revision with this change
> in dts:
> 
>        brightness-levels = <0 1000>;
>        num-interpolated-steps = <1000>;
> 
> and report at what brightness level the backlight turns on. So far it
> seems this has a wide range. Lowest useable duty cycle for me is ~7%
> on 1.2 and for Martijn ~20% on 1.1.
> 
> Icenowy Zheng (2):
>   dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add Xingbangda
>   arm64: dts: sun50i-a64-pinephone: Enable LCD support on PinePhone
> 
> Ondrej Jirman (11):
>   dt-bindings: panel: Convert rocktech,jh057n00900 to yaml
>   dt-bindings: panel: Add compatible for Xingbangda XBD599 panel
>   drm/panel: rocktech-jh057n00900: Rename the driver to st7703
>   drm/panel: st7703: Rename functions from jh057n prefix to st7703
>   drm/panel: st7703: Prepare for supporting multiple panels
>   drm/panel: st7703: Move code specific to jh057n closer together
>   drm/panel: st7703: Move generic part of init sequence to enable
>     callback
>   drm/panel: st7703: Add support for Xingbangda XBD599
>   drm/panel: st7703: Enter sleep after display off
>   drm/panel: st7703: Assert reset prior to powering down the regulators
>   arm64: dts: sun50i-a64-pinephone: Add touchscreen support
> 
>  .../display/panel/rocktech,jh057n00900.txt    |  23 -
>  .../display/panel/rocktech,jh057n00900.yaml   |  70 ++
>  .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml  |   2 +
>  .../allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.1.dts    |  19 +
>  .../dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone.dtsi   |  54 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Kconfig                 |  26 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Makefile                |   2 +-
>  .../drm/panel/panel-rocktech-jh057n00900.c    | 424 -----------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sitronix-st7703.c | 656 ++++++++++++++++++
>  9 files changed, 815 insertions(+), 461 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/rocktech,jh057n00900.txt
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/rocktech,jh057n00900.yaml
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-rocktech-jh057n00900.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sitronix-st7703.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.27.0
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