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Kumar, Shobhit Feb. 18, 2015, 12:18 p.m. UTC
Export Panel BACKLIGHT_EN(offset 0x51) and PANEL_EN(offset 0x52) as two
additional GPIOs. Needed by display driver to enable the DSI panel on
BYT platform where the Panel EN/Disable and Backlight control are
routed thorugh CRC PMIC

Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-crystalcove.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Linus Walleij March 6, 2015, 11:04 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:

> Export Panel BACKLIGHT_EN(offset 0x51) and PANEL_EN(offset 0x52) as two
> additional GPIOs. Needed by display driver to enable the DSI panel on
> BYT platform where the Panel EN/Disable and Backlight control are
> routed thorugh CRC PMIC
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>

This seems very unintuitive. I have a hard time believeing this:

> +#define GPIOPANELCTL           0x51

A special GPIO only designated to panel control? That is totally
counter to the *meaning* of "general purpose input/output".
It is not general purpose at all, it is special-purpose.

If the data sheet says a special-purpose pin is a "GPIO" when
it isn't the map of the world (the datasheet terminology) is wrong,
not the world, the usage is dedicated for the panel. Look
at the usecase, not the name.

Obviously that line is only for controlling the backlight, and you
should spin a new child device from the Inte SoC PMIC MFD hub
and put a driver for it in drivers/video/backlight or wherever this
goes.

Lee: do you agree?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
Kumar, Shobhit March 6, 2015, 4:23 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 12:04 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:

> 

> > Export Panel BACKLIGHT_EN(offset 0x51) and PANEL_EN(offset 0x52) as two

> > additional GPIOs. Needed by display driver to enable the DSI panel on

> > BYT platform where the Panel EN/Disable and Backlight control are

> > routed thorugh CRC PMIC

> >

> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

> > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>

> > Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>

> > Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>

> 

> This seems very unintuitive. I have a hard time believeing this:

> 

> > +#define GPIOPANELCTL           0x51

> 

> A special GPIO only designated to panel control? That is totally

> counter to the *meaning* of "general purpose input/output".

> It is not general purpose at all, it is special-purpose.

> 

> If the data sheet says a special-purpose pin is a "GPIO" when

> it isn't the map of the world (the datasheet terminology) is wrong,

> not the world, the usage is dedicated for the panel. Look

> at the usecase, not the name.

> 

> Obviously that line is only for controlling the backlight, and you

> should spin a new child device from the Inte SoC PMIC MFD hub

> and put a driver for it in drivers/video/backlight or wherever this

> goes.


There are actually two lines for Panel Power control and Backlight
enable/disable. I have already moved towards adding a new Cell device
for PWM child device and a new pwm driver for the same. That will take
care of backlight thingy. But for the Panel power control, I am at loss
for how best to program that. It is not strictly a GPIO but behaves
similarly and thought of simply extending existing gpio-crystalcove. My
next implementation(not posted yet) is having that exported by adding a
lookup table in PMIC MFD probe routine.

Regards
Shobhit

> 

> Lee: do you agree?

> 

> Yours,

> Linus Walleij
Linus Walleij March 9, 2015, 5:15 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:

> There are actually two lines for Panel Power control and Backlight
> enable/disable. I have already moved towards adding a new Cell device
> for PWM child device and a new pwm driver for the same. That will take
> care of backlight thingy. But for the Panel power control, I am at loss
> for how best to program that.

Isn't it just a very simple regulator (just on/off of fixed voltage) cell?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
Kumar, Shobhit March 12, 2015, 3:06 p.m. UTC | #4
On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 18:15 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:

> 

> > There are actually two lines for Panel Power control and Backlight

> > enable/disable. I have already moved towards adding a new Cell device

> > for PWM child device and a new pwm driver for the same. That will take

> > care of backlight thingy. But for the Panel power control, I am at loss

> > for how best to program that.

> 

> Isn't it just a very simple regulator (just on/off of fixed voltage) cell?

> 


It is just behaving as an output GPIO line and for that reason I feel
that rather than adding a new regulator driver, it is better to augment
the gpio-crystalcove driver. I am planning to export as GPIO from PMIC
MFD driver by way of lookup table and use in display side. Will send RFC
patch soon.

Backlight control as I said is a new pwm cell.

Regards
Shobhit

> Yours,

> Linus Walleij
Linus Walleij March 18, 2015, 11:50 a.m. UTC | #5
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 18:15 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> > There are actually two lines for Panel Power control and Backlight
>> > enable/disable. I have already moved towards adding a new Cell device
>> > for PWM child device and a new pwm driver for the same. That will take
>> > care of backlight thingy. But for the Panel power control, I am at loss
>> > for how best to program that.
>>
>> Isn't it just a very simple regulator (just on/off of fixed voltage) cell?
>>
>
> It is just behaving as an output GPIO line and for that reason I feel
> that rather than adding a new regulator driver,

I disagree. GPIO reads "general purpose input/output".

This is not a GPIO, this is a special purpose thing and IMO
it should be modeled directly as a regulator.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
Daniel Vetter March 18, 2015, 1:27 p.m. UTC | #6
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:50:51PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 18:15 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > There are actually two lines for Panel Power control and Backlight
> >> > enable/disable. I have already moved towards adding a new Cell device
> >> > for PWM child device and a new pwm driver for the same. That will take
> >> > care of backlight thingy. But for the Panel power control, I am at loss
> >> > for how best to program that.
> >>
> >> Isn't it just a very simple regulator (just on/off of fixed voltage) cell?
> >>
> >
> > It is just behaving as an output GPIO line and for that reason I feel
> > that rather than adding a new regulator driver,
> 
> I disagree. GPIO reads "general purpose input/output".
> 
> This is not a GPIO, this is a special purpose thing and IMO
> it should be modeled directly as a regulator.

The idea behind reusing gpio was that we can reuse the dynamic lookup
stuff so that i915 can find the gpio. And it is a gpio (there's lots more
on that chip), it's just that intel tends to hand you recommended board
layouts. And there's different ones so only really i915.ko can tell you if
it's indeed used to control the panel or not (after consulting a bunch of
vbios tables).

Regulator seems way too overkill for this, especially since it tends to be
a lie on systems where the panel is not connected to that gpio line. And
afaiui the point of the regulator subsystem is that you just ask for the
regulator for your IP block and then magically get handed the right bit
(or a dummy one). This is very much not the case, hw descriptions on x86
in this area are a kludge worse than board tables since we can't even fix
up what the bios hands us anywhere.

So for me plan B is to just handroll our own thing using the component
framework when reusing gpios isn't acceptable.
-Daniel
Linus Walleij March 24, 2015, 9:50 a.m. UTC | #7
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:50:51PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> This is not a GPIO, this is a special purpose thing and IMO
>> it should be modeled directly as a regulator.
>
> The idea behind reusing gpio was that we can reuse the dynamic lookup
> stuff so that i915 can find the gpio.

(Fixed) regulators also have dynamic lookups so they provide the
exact same mechanism of associating themselves to devices.

> And it is a gpio (there's lots more
> on that chip),

Well the other GPIO registers seem to have 8 GPIOs each, so one
register control 8 random lines.

In this case they obviously put a single bit to control a line out
of the PMIC. The register was intended to that purpose only,
the register is named PANEL_EN/DISABLE in the refman (right?)
and I bet a million to one that the pin on the PMIC and the rail
connected to it is also named PANEL_EN/DISABLE or similar.

So the hardware engineers had a special purpose in mind for
this. Not general purpose (GPIO).

> it's just that intel tends to hand you recommended board
> layouts. And there's different ones so only really i915.ko can tell you if
> it's indeed used to control the panel or not (after consulting a bunch of
> vbios tables).

What about the schematic or PMIC pinout. I suspect it
tells you a lot about the intended usage by calling that pin
PANEL_EN or so.

I'm not saying other usecases are impossible, all Rube Goldberg
machine variants are possible, but are other use cases really
realistic amongst implementers?

> Regulator seems way too overkill for this, especially since it tends to be
> a lie on systems where the panel is not connected to that gpio line. And
> afaiui the point of the regulator subsystem is that you just ask for the
> regulator for your IP block and then magically get handed the right bit
> (or a dummy one). This is very much not the case, hw descriptions on x86
> in this area are a kludge worse than board tables since we can't even fix
> up what the bios hands us anywhere.

Depends on the intended use case I would say.

Regulator isn't overkill if it fits the use case better. And I think you have
a power-on delay, typically so that the panel driver cannot immediately
start transmitting data to the panel after driving this line high. Probably
the panel needs to settle first.

This is referred to as a power-on-delay and the regulator framework
can handle it for you.

I strongly suspect that you would be planting some delay code in the
site enabling the GPIO instead maybe already now or when later
running into this while enabling suspend/resume or similar power
saving mechanisms. That is basically reimplementing some helpful
stuff from the regulator framework.

> So for me plan B is to just handroll our own thing using the component
> framework when reusing gpios isn't acceptable.

Let's just figure out if GPIO is the best fit first, or if you actually could
be helped by fixed regulators.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
Linus Walleij March 25, 2015, 12:27 p.m. UTC | #8
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:

> Export Panel BACKLIGHT_EN(offset 0x51) and PANEL_EN(offset 0x52) as two
> additional GPIOs. Needed by display driver to enable the DSI panel on
> BYT platform where the Panel EN/Disable and Backlight control are
> routed thorugh CRC PMIC
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>

Patch applied, after Daniel convinced me that this is the lesser
of several possible evils to the kernel code base.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
Kumar, Shobhit March 25, 2015, 2:15 p.m. UTC | #9
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 13:27 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:

> 

> > Export Panel BACKLIGHT_EN(offset 0x51) and PANEL_EN(offset 0x52) as two

> > additional GPIOs. Needed by display driver to enable the DSI panel on

> > BYT platform where the Panel EN/Disable and Backlight control are

> > routed thorugh CRC PMIC

> >

> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

> > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>

> > Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>

> > Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>

> 

> Patch applied, after Daniel convinced me that this is the lesser

> of several possible evils to the kernel code base.

> 


Thanks, but I hope you pulled in the patch from the latest series which
only exports one of them not both.

Regards
Shobhit
Linus Walleij March 25, 2015, 2:39 p.m. UTC | #10
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 13:27 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Export Panel BACKLIGHT_EN(offset 0x51) and PANEL_EN(offset 0x52) as two
>> > additional GPIOs. Needed by display driver to enable the DSI panel on
>> > BYT platform where the Panel EN/Disable and Backlight control are
>> > routed thorugh CRC PMIC
>> >
>> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>> > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
>> > Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>
>>
>> Patch applied, after Daniel convinced me that this is the lesser
>> of several possible evils to the kernel code base.
>>
>
> Thanks, but I hope you pulled in the patch from the latest series which
> only exports one of them not both.

Ummm I'll double-check.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-crystalcove.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-crystalcove.c
index 3d9e08f..9e94dc64 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-crystalcove.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-crystalcove.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/mfd/intel_soc_pmic.h>
 
 #define CRYSTALCOVE_GPIO_NUM	16
-#define CRYSTALCOVE_VGPIO_NUM	94
+#define CRYSTALCOVE_VGPIO_NUM	96
 
 #define UPDATE_IRQ_TYPE		BIT(0)
 #define UPDATE_IRQ_MASK		BIT(1)
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ 
 #define GPIO0P0CTLI		0x33
 #define GPIO1P0CTLO		0x3b
 #define GPIO1P0CTLI		0x43
+#define GPIOPANELCTL		0x51
 
 #define CTLI_INTCNT_DIS		(0)
 #define CTLI_INTCNT_NE		(1 << 1)
@@ -93,6 +94,11 @@  static inline int to_reg(int gpio, enum ctrl_register reg_type)
 {
 	int reg;
 
+	if (gpio >= 94) {
+		reg = GPIOPANELCTL + gpio - 94;
+		return reg;
+	}
+
 	if (reg_type == CTRL_IN) {
 		if (gpio < 8)
 			reg = GPIO0P0CTLI;