[0/4] Google Pixel 6 (simple) framebuffer support

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André Draszik Dec. 16, 2024, 1:06 p.m. UTC

Hi,

This series enables simple framebuffer support on Google Pixel 6 and
Pixel 6 Pro.

Even if simple-framebuffer is deprecated and DRM should be used
instead, having it available in DT is beneficial for several reasons at
this point in time (the phone uses an OLED display):
* energy consumption goes down significantly, as it changes from white
  (as left by bootloader) to black (linux console), and we generally
  don't run out of battery anymore when plugged into a USB port
* less of a burn-in effect I assume
* phone stays cooler due to reduced energy consumption by display

Since Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro use a different resolution display, this
is the time to separate them into their respective DTs, and provide one
for each of them. There are other differences between the two, like
battery design capacity, but they don't matter at this stage due to
incomplete upstream support.

* dependency note *

Due to the renaming of the gs101-oriole.dts, this series will conflict
with any pending patches touching the same file. I have therefore based
this series on top of my USB series from
https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Please let me know if I should do something different.

* dependency note end *

For those who want to try this out:
The stock bootloader disables the decon hardware trigger before jumping
to Linux, preventing framebuffer updates from reaching the display. We
have added a work-around in our Yocto BSP layer for the time being
(until a proper display exists upstream). An alternative might be to
port and use uniLoader from https://github.com/ivoszbg/uniLoader, as
seems to be done for some other Exynos platforms.

Signed-off-by: André Draszik <[e-mail]>
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André Draszik (4):
      dt-bindings: arm: google: add gs101-raven
      arm64: dts: exynos: gs101-oriole: configure simple-framebuffer
      arm64: dts: exynos: gs101-oriole: move common Pixel6 & 6Pro parts into a .dtsi
      arm64: dts: exynos: gs101-raven: add new board file

 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/google.yaml  |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/exynos/google/Makefile         |   1 +
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/exynos/google/gs101-oriole.dts | 269 +------------------
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/exynos/google/gs101-raven.dts  |  27 ++
 .../boot/dts/exynos/google/gs101-raviole.dtsi      | 297 +++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 262 deletions(-)
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base-commit: d454191ca68125bee218d1d67d6716d7e753dc7b
change-id: 20241216-gs101-simplefb-8aae80278ed7

Best regards,