Re: [PATCH v17 1/4] dt-bindings: msm: disp: add yaml schemas for DPU bindings

[Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>]

On Fri 21 May 15:51 CDT 2021, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2021-05-21 09:00:29)
> > On Fri 21 May 05:27 CDT 2021, Krishna Manikandan wrote:
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/msm/dpu-sc7180.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/msm/dpu-sc7180.yaml
> > [..]
> > > +      ports:
> > > +        $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/ports
> > > +        description: |
> > > +          Contains the list of output ports from DPU device. These ports
> > > +          connect to interfaces that are external to the DPU hardware,
> > > +          such as DSI, DP etc. Each output port contains an endpoint that
> > > +          describes how it is connected to an external interface.
> > > +
> > > +        properties:
> > > +          port@0:
> > > +            $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/port
> > > +            description: DPU_INTF1 (DSI1)
> > > +
> > > +          port@2:
> > > +            $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/port
> > > +            description: DPU_INTF0 (DP)
> >
> > Why is port@0 INTF1 and why is port@2 INTF0? In the binding you're
> > translating the two ports that are described are 0 and 1, representing
> > INTF1 and INTF2, or DSI1 and DSI2, respectively.
> >
> > Further more, I have a need for somehow describing the pairing of 4 DP
> > INTFs (INTF 0, 3, 4 and 5) and how they are connected to the 3+1 DP+eDP
> > controllers.
> >
> > Downstream this seems to be handled by adding cell-index to the DP
> > controllers and then matching that against the numbering in the driver's
> > INTF array. But rather than adding cell-index to map this, can't we
> > define that the port index is the INTF-number here?
> >
> >
> > This would obviously break compatibility with existing DTBs, but we
> > could start by doing it selectively for the new compatibles, fix up the
> > existing dts files and then drop the selective application after 1 or 2
> > LTS releases.
> 
> I requested that the existing DT not change a while ago when the DP
> interface was being added to this binding. Is it possible to figure out
> what interface it is that the port is for from the binding? It feels
> like the problem is that the driver wants to look through the graph and
> make connectors for each one, but it doesn't know what type of connector
> to make.

Today there's a single priv->dp pointer which is initialized as the one
and only displayport controller component is bound.
_dpu_kms_set_encoder_mode() has no knowledge about which interface this
single controller is attached to, so dpu_encoder_setup_display() will
always just pick INTF_DP index 0.

So in its current form if your single DP port isn't sitting on the
platform's first DP INTF you need to hack dpu_hw_catalog and remove the
previous ones.

But with my desire to reuse the DP controller code for eDP, and the fact
that I have 3 DP controllers in my laptop we need something more.

But after considering my proposal further I realized that it is too
static for my use case anyway. SC8180x has INTF 0 and 4 are wired to
the DP controllers associated with the two primary USB ports and then
INTF 3 is dynamically switched between them for MST purposes.

So using port indices would prevent me from doing this dynamic dance.

Regards,
Bjorn