Hi Maxime,
maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:55:28PM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote:I'm using an i.MX28 based board with lcd connected with 18bits data bus.
My platform uses 32 bits per pixel:
mxsfb_pdata.default_bpp = 32;
mxsfb_pdata.ld_intf_width = STMLCDIF_18BIT;
With these settings the mxsfb.c driver sets flag DATA_FORMAT_24_BIT
at HW_LCDIF_CTRL register in function mxsfb_set_par():
case 32:
dev_dbg(&host->pdev->dev, "Setting up RGB888/666 mode\n");
ctrl |= CTRL_SET_WORD_LENGTH(3);
switch (host->ld_intf_width) {
case STMLCDIF_8BIT:
dev_dbg(&host->pdev->dev,
"Unsupported LCD bus width mapping\n");
return -EINVAL;
case STMLCDIF_16BIT:
case STMLCDIF_18BIT:
/* 24 bit to 18 bit mapping */
ctrl |= CTRL_DF24; /* ignore the upper 2 bits in
* each colour component
*/
break;
case STMLCDIF_24BIT:
/* real 24 bit */
break;
}
According to the manual, this flag does:
0x0: ALL_24_BITS_VALID: Data input to the block is in 24 bpp
format, such that all RGB 888 data is contained in 24 bits.
0x1: DROP_UPPER_2_BITS_PER_BYTE â Data input to the block is
actually RGB 18 bpp, but there is 1 colour per byte, hence the upper
2 bits in each byte do not contain any useful data, and should be
dropped.
The setting of this flag is producing bad colours with true colour
images (i.e. the Linux penguin is displayed ok, but QT applications
or images displayed with fbv are not).
I believe the setting of this flag is not correct (after all, if my
bpp is 32, then all 24bit colours are useful and dropping the upper
2 bits is a bad idea).
If I don't set it, then true colour images are displayed correctly.
The only problem is that the Linux penguin is displayed much darker
than usual (correct colours, but darker). Perhaps the 224 colour
format of this image justifies it?
I noticed the cfa10049 platform also uses the same configuration (18
bits data bus and 32bpp) and was wondering if true colour images are
correctly displayed in this platform with this flag set (for example
with fbv application [1]).
I had the exact same problem, and suggested the exact same solution a
few weeks back.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2470441/
The conclusion of that discussion what that the userspace applications
were not honouring the bitfield correctly set by the mxsfb driver, and
as such, it was not a bug in the driver.
While this is correct, I wonder, now that since we had that same problem
in a very short amount of time, if we couldn't set this behaviour
dependant of some (dt? kernel argument?) property so that one could
customise it anyway he want.
Maxime
i.MX2[3|8] LCD1 LCD2 LCD3
24bit 18bit 18bit
--------------------------------------------
LCD_D0 B0 B0 --
LCD_D1 B1 B1 --
LCD_D2 B2 B2 B0
LCD_D3 B3 B3 B1
LCD_D4 B4 B4 B2
LCD_D5 B5 B5 B3
LCD_D6 B6 G0 B4
LCD_D7 B7 G1 B5
LCD_D8 G0 G2 --
LCD_D9 G1 G3 --
LCD_D10 G2 G4 G0
LCD_D11 G3 G5 G1
LCD_D12 G4 R0 G2
LCD_D13 G5 R1 G3
LCD_D14 G6 R2 G4
LCD_D15 G7 R3 G5
LCD_D16 R0 R4 --
LCD_D17 R1 R5 --
LCD_D18 R2 R0
LCD_D19 R3 R1
LCD_D20 R4 R2
LCD_D21 R5 R3
LCD_D22 R6 R4
LCD_D23 R7 R5
Is your display connected like LCD2 or LCD3? LCD3 must still handled like a 24
bit display shown in LCD1, while only the LCD2-case is the "24 bit to 18 bit
mapping" case.
At least my current tests with an i.MX23 and a connection like LCD2 are
working here with a Qt application. Qt honours the pixel bitfield
description. And I'm using the "bits-per-pixel = <32>" and "bus-width = <18>"
entries in the device tree.