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Tomi Valkeinen Nov. 14, 2019, 9:39 a.m. UTC
Hi Tony, Thierry, Laurent,

After the recent change of moving from omapdrm specific panel-dpi driver
to the DRM simple panel, AM4 EVM/ePOS's panel is not working quite
right. This series has fixes for it, but I'm not sure if these are the
right ways to fix the issues, so comments welcome.

1) Panel driver is not probed. With omapdrm's panel-dpi, the match
happened with "panel-dpi" compatible string. Now with panel-simple, the
match should happen with the panel model compatible string, which is
"osddisplays,osd057T0559-34ts" in the DT file. However, no such
compatible exists in panel-simple.

Interestingly, the actual panel at least on my EVMs and ePOSes is not
osd057T0559-34ts, but osd070t1718-19ts. Also, I was unable to find any
information about osd057T0559-34ts. I don't know the history with this,
so it is possible that the early versions of the boards did have
osd057T0559-34ts, but was later changed to osd070t1718-19ts.

As osd070t1718-19ts is supported by panel-simple, changing the
compatible string to osd070t1718-19ts in the DT file solves this one.

2) Timings in DT file cause a kernel warning. Omapdrm's panel-dpi used
video timings from the DT file, so they are present in all the DT files.
panel-simple uses timings from a table in the panel-simple driver, but
gives a kernel warning if the DT file contains timings.

This can be solved by removing the timings from the DT file.

3) Sync drive edge is not right. This one might have been present also
with panel-dpi, I didn't verify. The problem is that the panel-simple
data for osddisplays_osd070t1718_19ts defines bus_flags for DE polarity
and pixdata edge, but not for sync edge.

The datasheet for the panel does not give any hint on what the edge
should be.  Omapdrm defaults to driving syncs on falling edge, which
caused the image to be shifted one pixel to the right.

Adding DRM_BUS_FLAG_SYNC_DRIVE_POSEDGE bus_flag solves the problem. AM5
EVM also has the same panel with the same behavior.

====

The reason I'm not sure if the 1) and 2) fixes are correct is that
they're breaking DT compatibility. Should we instead make changes to
panel-simple to keep the same DT files working?

This would mean adding a new entry for the osd057T0559-34ts panel, but
as we don't have datasheet for it, I think we could just append the
compatible string to osd070t1718-19t's data.

It would also mean doing some change to the panel-simple code that gives
the warning about timings in DT data. This might make sense, as I think
we have other DT files with video timings too.

For 3), I think the patch is fine, but I'm not sure if the display
controller driver should be able to deduce the sync drive edge from the
pixdata drive edge. Are they usually the same? I have no idea...

 Tomi

Tomi Valkeinen (3):
  ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: fix panel compatible
  ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: drop unused panel timings
  drm/panel: simple: fix osd070t1718_19ts sync drive edge

 arch/arm/boot/dts/am437x-gp-evm.dts  | 18 +-----------------
 arch/arm/boot/dts/am43x-epos-evm.dts | 18 +-----------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

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Comments

Tomi Valkeinen Nov. 27, 2019, 12:59 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Tony, Thierry, Laurent,

Any thoughts on the below points?

I think yet another option is to write some omap boot time quirks code, which looks at the DT data, 
and changes the panel compatible string (for 1), and removes the timings node (for 2).

  Tomi

On 14/11/2019 11:39, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Hi Tony, Thierry, Laurent,
> 
> After the recent change of moving from omapdrm specific panel-dpi driver
> to the DRM simple panel, AM4 EVM/ePOS's panel is not working quite
> right. This series has fixes for it, but I'm not sure if these are the
> right ways to fix the issues, so comments welcome.
> 
> 1) Panel driver is not probed. With omapdrm's panel-dpi, the match
> happened with "panel-dpi" compatible string. Now with panel-simple, the
> match should happen with the panel model compatible string, which is
> "osddisplays,osd057T0559-34ts" in the DT file. However, no such
> compatible exists in panel-simple.
> 
> Interestingly, the actual panel at least on my EVMs and ePOSes is not
> osd057T0559-34ts, but osd070t1718-19ts. Also, I was unable to find any
> information about osd057T0559-34ts. I don't know the history with this,
> so it is possible that the early versions of the boards did have
> osd057T0559-34ts, but was later changed to osd070t1718-19ts.
> 
> As osd070t1718-19ts is supported by panel-simple, changing the
> compatible string to osd070t1718-19ts in the DT file solves this one.
> 
> 2) Timings in DT file cause a kernel warning. Omapdrm's panel-dpi used
> video timings from the DT file, so they are present in all the DT files.
> panel-simple uses timings from a table in the panel-simple driver, but
> gives a kernel warning if the DT file contains timings.
> 
> This can be solved by removing the timings from the DT file.
> 
> 3) Sync drive edge is not right. This one might have been present also
> with panel-dpi, I didn't verify. The problem is that the panel-simple
> data for osddisplays_osd070t1718_19ts defines bus_flags for DE polarity
> and pixdata edge, but not for sync edge.
> 
> The datasheet for the panel does not give any hint on what the edge
> should be.  Omapdrm defaults to driving syncs on falling edge, which
> caused the image to be shifted one pixel to the right.
> 
> Adding DRM_BUS_FLAG_SYNC_DRIVE_POSEDGE bus_flag solves the problem. AM5
> EVM also has the same panel with the same behavior.
> 
> ====
> 
> The reason I'm not sure if the 1) and 2) fixes are correct is that
> they're breaking DT compatibility. Should we instead make changes to
> panel-simple to keep the same DT files working?
> 
> This would mean adding a new entry for the osd057T0559-34ts panel, but
> as we don't have datasheet for it, I think we could just append the
> compatible string to osd070t1718-19t's data.
> 
> It would also mean doing some change to the panel-simple code that gives
> the warning about timings in DT data. This might make sense, as I think
> we have other DT files with video timings too.
> 
> For 3), I think the patch is fine, but I'm not sure if the display
> controller driver should be able to deduce the sync drive edge from the
> pixdata drive edge. Are they usually the same? I have no idea...
> 
>   Tomi
> 
> Tomi Valkeinen (3):
>    ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: fix panel compatible
>    ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: drop unused panel timings
>    drm/panel: simple: fix osd070t1718_19ts sync drive edge
> 
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/am437x-gp-evm.dts  | 18 +-----------------
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/am43x-epos-evm.dts | 18 +-----------------
>   drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c |  3 ++-
>   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
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>
Tony Lindgren Nov. 27, 2019, 3:45 p.m. UTC | #2
Hi

* Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> [191127 12:59]:
> Hi Tony, Thierry, Laurent,
> 
> Any thoughts on the below points?

> I think yet another option is to write some omap boot time quirks code,
> which looks at the DT data, and changes the panel compatible string (for 1),
> and removes the timings node (for 2).

Nah, seems we can just update the compatible.

> On 14/11/2019 11:39, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > 1) Panel driver is not probed. With omapdrm's panel-dpi, the match
> > happened with "panel-dpi" compatible string. Now with panel-simple, the
> > match should happen with the panel model compatible string, which is
> > "osddisplays,osd057T0559-34ts" in the DT file. However, no such
> > compatible exists in panel-simple.
> >
> > Interestingly, the actual panel at least on my EVMs and ePOSes is not
> > osd057T0559-34ts, but osd070t1718-19ts. Also, I was unable to find any
> > information about osd057T0559-34ts. I don't know the history with this,
> > so it is possible that the early versions of the boards did have
> > osd057T0559-34ts, but was later changed to osd070t1718-19ts.

I guess you could keep the old compatible there too if really needed.
But then again if the old compatible is known to be incorrect, it
should be just updated.

So it looks good to me for the dts changes. Do you want me to pick
them into fixes as it seems that the panel driver fix is a separate
issue?

Regards,

Tony
Tomi Valkeinen Nov. 28, 2019, 7:03 a.m. UTC | #3
Hi Tony,

On 27/11/2019 17:45, Tony Lindgren wrote:

>>> Interestingly, the actual panel at least on my EVMs and ePOSes is not
>>> osd057T0559-34ts, but osd070t1718-19ts. Also, I was unable to find any
>>> information about osd057T0559-34ts. I don't know the history with this,
>>> so it is possible that the early versions of the boards did have
>>> osd057T0559-34ts, but was later changed to osd070t1718-19ts.
> 
> I guess you could keep the old compatible there too if really needed.
> But then again if the old compatible is known to be incorrect, it
> should be just updated.
> 
> So it looks good to me for the dts changes. Do you want me to pick
> them into fixes as it seems that the panel driver fix is a separate
> issue?

Yes, the third patch can be handled separately, so please pick the first two ones.

  Tomi
Laurent Pinchart Dec. 2, 2019, 1:13 p.m. UTC | #4
Hi Tomi,

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:39:47AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Hi Tony, Thierry, Laurent,
> 
> After the recent change of moving from omapdrm specific panel-dpi driver
> to the DRM simple panel, AM4 EVM/ePOS's panel is not working quite
> right. This series has fixes for it, but I'm not sure if these are the
> right ways to fix the issues, so comments welcome.
> 
> 1) Panel driver is not probed. With omapdrm's panel-dpi, the match
> happened with "panel-dpi" compatible string. Now with panel-simple, the
> match should happen with the panel model compatible string, which is
> "osddisplays,osd057T0559-34ts" in the DT file. However, no such
> compatible exists in panel-simple.

I've also noticed that we have a few other omap-based platforms that
got broken, for the same reason :-( We're missing driver support for
innolux,at070tn83, samsung,lte430wq-f0c and startek,startek-kd050c, and
we have a few nodes that use panel-dpi without any more precise
compatible string.

> Interestingly, the actual panel at least on my EVMs and ePOSes is not
> osd057T0559-34ts, but osd070t1718-19ts. Also, I was unable to find any
> information about osd057T0559-34ts. I don't know the history with this,
> so it is possible that the early versions of the boards did have
> osd057T0559-34ts, but was later changed to osd070t1718-19ts.
> 
> As osd070t1718-19ts is supported by panel-simple, changing the
> compatible string to osd070t1718-19ts in the DT file solves this one.
> 
> 2) Timings in DT file cause a kernel warning. Omapdrm's panel-dpi used
> video timings from the DT file, so they are present in all the DT files.
> panel-simple uses timings from a table in the panel-simple driver, but
> gives a kernel warning if the DT file contains timings.
> 
> This can be solved by removing the timings from the DT file.
> 
> 3) Sync drive edge is not right. This one might have been present also
> with panel-dpi, I didn't verify. The problem is that the panel-simple
> data for osddisplays_osd070t1718_19ts defines bus_flags for DE polarity
> and pixdata edge, but not for sync edge.
> 
> The datasheet for the panel does not give any hint on what the edge
> should be.  Omapdrm defaults to driving syncs on falling edge, which
> caused the image to be shifted one pixel to the right.
> 
> Adding DRM_BUS_FLAG_SYNC_DRIVE_POSEDGE bus_flag solves the problem. AM5
> EVM also has the same panel with the same behavior.
> 
> ====
> 
> The reason I'm not sure if the 1) and 2) fixes are correct is that
> they're breaking DT compatibility. Should we instead make changes to
> panel-simple to keep the same DT files working?

That's tempting, as breaking DT is quite bad, but that would require
adding a match on panel-dpi, and parsing timings in the panel-simple
driver. Thierry has always been opposed to that as far as I can tell,
and even if I don't share his point of view, I don't want to move in
this direction without a consensus.

Your series is fine in my opinion, as even if we decide to handle
backward compatibility in this case, changing the DT files in mainline
is still the right way to go (if only to avoid giving wrong examples).

> This would mean adding a new entry for the osd057T0559-34ts panel, but
> as we don't have datasheet for it, I think we could just append the
> compatible string to osd070t1718-19t's data.
> 
> It would also mean doing some change to the panel-simple code that gives
> the warning about timings in DT data. This might make sense, as I think
> we have other DT files with video timings too.
> 
> For 3), I think the patch is fine, but I'm not sure if the display
> controller driver should be able to deduce the sync drive edge from the
> pixdata drive edge. Are they usually the same? I have no idea...
> 
> Tomi Valkeinen (3):
>   ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: fix panel compatible
>   ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: drop unused panel timings
>   drm/panel: simple: fix osd070t1718_19ts sync drive edge
> 
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/am437x-gp-evm.dts  | 18 +-----------------
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/am43x-epos-evm.dts | 18 +-----------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c |  3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
Adam Ford Dec. 2, 2019, 1:24 p.m. UTC | #5
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 7:13 AM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tomi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:39:47AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > Hi Tony, Thierry, Laurent,
> >
> > After the recent change of moving from omapdrm specific panel-dpi driver
> > to the DRM simple panel, AM4 EVM/ePOS's panel is not working quite
> > right. This series has fixes for it, but I'm not sure if these are the
> > right ways to fix the issues, so comments welcome.
> >
> > 1) Panel driver is not probed. With omapdrm's panel-dpi, the match
> > happened with "panel-dpi" compatible string. Now with panel-simple, the
> > match should happen with the panel model compatible string, which is
> > "osddisplays,osd057T0559-34ts" in the DT file. However, no such
> > compatible exists in panel-simple.
>
> I've also noticed that we have a few other omap-based platforms that
> got broken, for the same reason :-( We're missing driver support for
> innolux,at070tn83, samsung,lte430wq-f0c and startek,startek-kd050c, and
> we have a few nodes that use panel-dpi without any more precise
> compatible string.
>
> > Interestingly, the actual panel at least on my EVMs and ePOSes is not
> > osd057T0559-34ts, but osd070t1718-19ts. Also, I was unable to find any
> > information about osd057T0559-34ts. I don't know the history with this,
> > so it is possible that the early versions of the boards did have
> > osd057T0559-34ts, but was later changed to osd070t1718-19ts.
> >
> > As osd070t1718-19ts is supported by panel-simple, changing the
> > compatible string to osd070t1718-19ts in the DT file solves this one.
> >
> > 2) Timings in DT file cause a kernel warning. Omapdrm's panel-dpi used
> > video timings from the DT file, so they are present in all the DT files.
> > panel-simple uses timings from a table in the panel-simple driver, but
> > gives a kernel warning if the DT file contains timings.
> >
> > This can be solved by removing the timings from the DT file.
> >
> > 3) Sync drive edge is not right. This one might have been present also
> > with panel-dpi, I didn't verify. The problem is that the panel-simple
> > data for osddisplays_osd070t1718_19ts defines bus_flags for DE polarity
> > and pixdata edge, but not for sync edge.
> >
> > The datasheet for the panel does not give any hint on what the edge
> > should be.  Omapdrm defaults to driving syncs on falling edge, which
> > caused the image to be shifted one pixel to the right.
> >
> > Adding DRM_BUS_FLAG_SYNC_DRIVE_POSEDGE bus_flag solves the problem. AM5
> > EVM also has the same panel with the same behavior.
> >
> > ====
> >
> > The reason I'm not sure if the 1) and 2) fixes are correct is that
> > they're breaking DT compatibility. Should we instead make changes to
> > panel-simple to keep the same DT files working?
>
> That's tempting, as breaking DT is quite bad, but that would require
> adding a match on panel-dpi, and parsing timings in the panel-simple
> driver. Thierry has always been opposed to that as far as I can tell,
> and even if I don't share his point of view, I don't want to move in
> this direction without a consensus.

What about a generic driver separate from the simple panel driver that
does just the panel-dpi parsing?

If we exported the necessary functions from simple-panel, we could
call them from the panel-dpi parser and not have to re-invent the
functions to enable power, gpio or back light and/or fix them each
time they get updated.


adam
>
> Your series is fine in my opinion, as even if we decide to handle
> backward compatibility in this case, changing the DT files in mainline
> is still the right way to go (if only to avoid giving wrong examples).
>
> > This would mean adding a new entry for the osd057T0559-34ts panel, but
> > as we don't have datasheet for it, I think we could just append the
> > compatible string to osd070t1718-19t's data.
> >
> > It would also mean doing some change to the panel-simple code that gives
> > the warning about timings in DT data. This might make sense, as I think
> > we have other DT files with video timings too.
> >
> > For 3), I think the patch is fine, but I'm not sure if the display
> > controller driver should be able to deduce the sync drive edge from the
> > pixdata drive edge. Are they usually the same? I have no idea...
> >
> > Tomi Valkeinen (3):
> >   ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: fix panel compatible
> >   ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: drop unused panel timings
> >   drm/panel: simple: fix osd070t1718_19ts sync drive edge
> >
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/am437x-gp-evm.dts  | 18 +-----------------
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/am43x-epos-evm.dts | 18 +-----------------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c |  3 ++-
> >  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart
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Laurent Pinchart Dec. 3, 2019, 9:27 p.m. UTC | #6
Hi Adam,

On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 07:24:09AM -0600, Adam Ford wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 7:13 AM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:39:47AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > > Hi Tony, Thierry, Laurent,
> > >
> > > After the recent change of moving from omapdrm specific panel-dpi driver
> > > to the DRM simple panel, AM4 EVM/ePOS's panel is not working quite
> > > right. This series has fixes for it, but I'm not sure if these are the
> > > right ways to fix the issues, so comments welcome.
> > >
> > > 1) Panel driver is not probed. With omapdrm's panel-dpi, the match
> > > happened with "panel-dpi" compatible string. Now with panel-simple, the
> > > match should happen with the panel model compatible string, which is
> > > "osddisplays,osd057T0559-34ts" in the DT file. However, no such
> > > compatible exists in panel-simple.
> >
> > I've also noticed that we have a few other omap-based platforms that
> > got broken, for the same reason :-( We're missing driver support for
> > innolux,at070tn83, samsung,lte430wq-f0c and startek,startek-kd050c, and
> > we have a few nodes that use panel-dpi without any more precise
> > compatible string.
> >
> > > Interestingly, the actual panel at least on my EVMs and ePOSes is not
> > > osd057T0559-34ts, but osd070t1718-19ts. Also, I was unable to find any
> > > information about osd057T0559-34ts. I don't know the history with this,
> > > so it is possible that the early versions of the boards did have
> > > osd057T0559-34ts, but was later changed to osd070t1718-19ts.
> > >
> > > As osd070t1718-19ts is supported by panel-simple, changing the
> > > compatible string to osd070t1718-19ts in the DT file solves this one.
> > >
> > > 2) Timings in DT file cause a kernel warning. Omapdrm's panel-dpi used
> > > video timings from the DT file, so they are present in all the DT files.
> > > panel-simple uses timings from a table in the panel-simple driver, but
> > > gives a kernel warning if the DT file contains timings.
> > >
> > > This can be solved by removing the timings from the DT file.
> > >
> > > 3) Sync drive edge is not right. This one might have been present also
> > > with panel-dpi, I didn't verify. The problem is that the panel-simple
> > > data for osddisplays_osd070t1718_19ts defines bus_flags for DE polarity
> > > and pixdata edge, but not for sync edge.
> > >
> > > The datasheet for the panel does not give any hint on what the edge
> > > should be.  Omapdrm defaults to driving syncs on falling edge, which
> > > caused the image to be shifted one pixel to the right.
> > >
> > > Adding DRM_BUS_FLAG_SYNC_DRIVE_POSEDGE bus_flag solves the problem. AM5
> > > EVM also has the same panel with the same behavior.
> > >
> > > ====
> > >
> > > The reason I'm not sure if the 1) and 2) fixes are correct is that
> > > they're breaking DT compatibility. Should we instead make changes to
> > > panel-simple to keep the same DT files working?
> >
> > That's tempting, as breaking DT is quite bad, but that would require
> > adding a match on panel-dpi, and parsing timings in the panel-simple
> > driver. Thierry has always been opposed to that as far as I can tell,
> > and even if I don't share his point of view, I don't want to move in
> > this direction without a consensus.
> 
> What about a generic driver separate from the simple panel driver that
> does just the panel-dpi parsing?

A separate driver wouldn't make too much of a difference. Thierry's
point was that drivers should hardcode the timings, as the compatible
string gives enough information and encoding timings in DT would
duplicate that information. I have a different point of view, and there
are pros and cons for both options, so we haven't been able to reach an
agreement. That's why I haven't pushed too hard for timings parsing from
DT, regardless of whether it would be in panel-simple or in a separate
driver.

> If we exported the necessary functions from simple-panel, we could
> call them from the panel-dpi parser and not have to re-invent the
> functions to enable power, gpio or back light and/or fix them each
> time they get updated.
> 
> > Your series is fine in my opinion, as even if we decide to handle
> > backward compatibility in this case, changing the DT files in mainline
> > is still the right way to go (if only to avoid giving wrong examples).
> >
> > > This would mean adding a new entry for the osd057T0559-34ts panel, but
> > > as we don't have datasheet for it, I think we could just append the
> > > compatible string to osd070t1718-19t's data.
> > >
> > > It would also mean doing some change to the panel-simple code that gives
> > > the warning about timings in DT data. This might make sense, as I think
> > > we have other DT files with video timings too.
> > >
> > > For 3), I think the patch is fine, but I'm not sure if the display
> > > controller driver should be able to deduce the sync drive edge from the
> > > pixdata drive edge. Are they usually the same? I have no idea...
> > >
> > > Tomi Valkeinen (3):
> > >   ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: fix panel compatible
> > >   ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: drop unused panel timings
> > >   drm/panel: simple: fix osd070t1718_19ts sync drive edge
> > >
> > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/am437x-gp-evm.dts  | 18 +-----------------
> > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/am43x-epos-evm.dts | 18 +-----------------
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c |  3 ++-
> > >  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)