Re: [PATCH v3 10/12] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Read the EDID only if refclk was provided

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Doug,

Thank you for the patch.

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:28:44PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> Though I don't have access to any hardware that uses ti-sn65dsi86 and
> _doesn't_ provide a "refclk", I believe that we'll have trouble
> reading the EDID at bootup in that case. Specifically I believe that
> if there's no "refclk" we need the MIPI source clock to be active
> before we can successfully read the EDID. My evidence here is that, in
> testing, I couldn't read the EDID until I turned on the DPPLL in the
> bridge chip and that the DPPLL needs the input clock to be active.
> 
> Since this is hard to support, let's punt trying to read the EDID if
> there's no "refclk".
> 
> I don't believe there are any users of the ti-sn65dsi86 bridge chip
> that _don't_ use "refclk". The bridge chip is _very_ inflexible in
> that mode. The only time I've seen that mode used was for some really
> early prototype hardware that was thrown in the e-waste bin years ago
> when we realized how inflexible it was.
> 
> Even if someone is using the bridge chip without the "refclk" they're
> in no worse shape than they were before the (fairly recent) commit
> 58074b08c04a ("drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Read EDID blob over DDC").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
> (no changes since v1)
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> index a76cac93cb46..fb50f9f95b0f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> @@ -275,6 +275,18 @@ static int ti_sn_bridge_connector_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
>  	bool was_enabled;
>  	int num;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Don't try to read the EDID if no refclk. In theory it is possible
> +	 * to make this work but it's tricky. I believe that we need to get
> +	 * our upstream MIPI source to provide a pixel clock before we can
> +	 * do AUX transations but we need to be able to read the EDID before
> +	 * we've picked a display mode. The bridge is already super limited
> +	 * if you try to use it without a refclk so presumably limiting to
> +	 * the fixed modes our downstream panel reports is fine.
> +	 */
> +	if (!pdata->refclk)
> +		goto exit;
> +
>  	if (!edid) {
>  		was_enabled = pdata->pre_enabled;
>  
> @@ -291,6 +303,7 @@ static int ti_sn_bridge_connector_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
>  			return num;
>  	}
>  
> +exit:
>  	return drm_panel_get_modes(pdata->panel, connector);
>  }
>  

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart