Re: RFC: DSI host capabilities (was: [PATCH RFC 03/10] drm/panel: Add LGD panel driver for Sony Xperia XZ3)

[Maxime Ripard]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 06:20:13PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 at 17:24, Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 04:37:57PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Either way, I'm not really sure it's a good idea to multiply the
> > > > > > capabilities flags of the DSI host, and we should just stick to the
> > > > > > spec. If the spec says that we have to support DSC while video is
> > > > > > output, then that's what the panels should expect.
> > > > >
> > > > > Except some panels supports DSC & non-DSC, Video and Command mode, and
> > > > > all that is runtime configurable. How do you handle that ?
> > > >
> > > > In this case, most of the constraints are going to be on the encoder
> > > > still so it should be the one driving it. The panel will only care about
> > > > which mode has been selected, but it shouldn't be the one driving it,
> > > > and thus we still don't really need to expose the host capabilities.
> > >
> > > This is an interesting perspective. This means that we can and actually have
> > > to extend the drm_display_mode with the DSI data and compression
> > > information.
> >
> > I wouldn't extend drm_display_mode, but extending one of the state
> > structures definitely.
> >
> > We already have some extra variables in drm_connector_state for HDMI,
> > I don't think it would be a big deal to add a few for MIPI-DSI.
> >
> > We also floated the idea for a while to create bus-specific states, with
> > helpers to match. Maybe it would be a good occasion to start doing it?
> >
> > > For example, the panel that supports all four types for the 1080p should
> > > export several modes:
> > >
> > > 1920x1080-command
> > > 1920x1080-command-DSC
> > > 1920x1080-video
> > > 1920x1080-video-DSC
> > >
> > > where video/command and DSC are some kinds of flags and/or information in
> > > the drm_display_mode? Ideally DSC also has several sub-flags, which denote
> > > what kind of configuration is supported by the DSC sink (e.g. bpp, yuv,
> > > etc).
> >
> > So we have two things to do, right? We need to expose what the panel can
> > take (ie, EDID for HDMI), and then we need to tell it what we picked
> > (infoframes).
> >
> > We already express the former in mipi_dsi_device, so we could extend the
> > flags stored there.
> >
> > And then, we need to tie what the DSI host chose to a given atomic state
> > so the panel knows what was picked and how it should set everything up.
> 
> This is definitely something we need. Marijn has been stuck with the
> panels that support different models ([1]).
> 
> Would you prefer a separate API for this kind of information or
> abusing atomic_enable() is fine from your point of view?
> 
> My vote would be for going with existing operations, with the slight
> fear of ending up with another DSI-specific hack (like
> pre_enable_prev_first).

I don't think we can get away without getting access to the atomic_state
from the panel at least.

Choosing one setup over another is likely going to depend on the mode,
and that's only available in the state.

We don't have to go the whole way though and create the sub-classes of
drm_connector_state, but I think we should at least provide it to the
panel.

What do you think of creating a new set of atomic_* callbacks for
panels, call that new set of functions from msm and start from there?

Maxime

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