Re: [PATCH 00/49] DRM driver for Hikey 970

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Aug 19 2020 - 11:21:37 EST


Hi Mauro.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:45:28PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> This patch series port the out-of-tree driver for Hikey 970 (which
> should also support Hikey 960) from the official 96boards tree:
>
> https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux/tree/hikey970-v4.9
>
> Based on his history, this driver seems to be originally written
> for Kernel 4.4, and was later ported to Kernel 4.9. The original
> driver used to depend on ION (from Kernel 4.4) and had its own
> implementation for FB dev API.
>
> As I need to preserve the original history (with has patches from
> both HiSilicon and from Linaro), I'm starting from the original
> patch applied there. The remaining patches are incremental,
> and port this driver to work with upstream Kernel.
>
> This driver doesn't depend on any firmware or on any special
> userspace code. It works as-is with both X11 and Wayland.
>
> Yet, I'm submitting it via staging due to the following reasons:
>
> - It depends on the LDO3 power supply, which is provided by
> a regulator driver that it is currently on staging;
> - Due to legal reasons, I need to preserve the authorship of
> each one responsbile for each patch. So, I need to start from
> the original patch from Kernel 4.4;
> - There are still some problems I need to figure out how to solve:
> - The adv7535 can't get EDID data. Maybe it is a timing issue,
> but it requires more research to be sure about how to solve it;
> - The driver only accept resolutions on a defined list, as there's
> a known bug that this driver may have troubles with random
> resolutions. Probably due to a bug at the pixel clock settings;
> - Sometimes (at least with 1080p), it generates LDI underflow
> errors, which in turn causes the DRM to stop working. That
> happens for example when using gdm on Wayland and
> gnome on X11;
> - Probably related to the previous issue, when the monitor
> suspends due to DPMS, it doesn't return back to life.
>
> So, IMO, the best is to keep it on staging for a while, until those
> remaining bugs gets solved.
>
> I added this series, together with the regulator driver and
> a few other patches (including a hack to fix a Kernel 5.8
> regression at WiFi ) at:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mchehab_kernel/hikey-970/-/commits/master
>
>
> Chen Feng (1):
> staging: hikey9xx: Add hisilicon DRM driver for hikey960/970
>
> John Stultz (1):
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: port it to work with Kernel v4.9
>
> Liwei Cai (2):
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: solve tearing issue of display
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: resolve the performance issue by interrupt
> mechanism
>
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (38):
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of adv7535 fork
Very good - I was in my mind starting a rant why we needed a fork of
this driver, but I see it gets deleted again.

I do acknowledge you need to preserve history and all -
but this patchset is not easy to review.

Could you follow-up with a review-able set of patches as a follow-up
for this?
I spotted some wrong bridge handling in one patch but I do not know if
this got changed in a later patch. And I lost the motivation to go
looking for it.


> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: rename the Kirin9xx namespace
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of kirin9xx_fbdev.c
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of some ifdefs
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: rename the config option for Kirin970
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: change the includes to reflect upstream
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: port driver to upstream kAPIs
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add a copy of set_reg() function there
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of ION headers
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add support for using a reserved CMA memory
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: cleanup encoder attach logic
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: Change the logic which sets the burst mode
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: fix the DRM setting logic
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: do some code cleanups
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: use default GEM_CMA fops
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: place vblank enable/disable at the right place
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: remove an uneeded hack
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add a possible implementation for
> atomic_disable
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: register connector
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: fix driver name
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of iommu_format
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: re-work the mode validation code
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add support for enable/disable ldo3 regulator
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add SPMI headers
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: solve most coding style issues
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: don't use iommu code
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add kirin9xx driver to the building system
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of typedefs
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of input/output macros
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of some unused data
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: place common definitions at kirin9xx_dpe.h
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: get rid of DRM_HISI_KIRIN970
> dts: hisilicon: hi3670.dtsi: add I2C settings
> dts: hikey970-pinctrl.dtsi: add missing pinctrl settings
> dt: hisilicon: add support for the PMIC found on Hikey 970
> dts: add support for Hikey 970 DRM
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: drop kirin9xx_pwm
> dt: display: Add binds for the DPE and DSI controller for Kirin
> 960/970
>
> Xiubin Zhang (7):
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add support to hikey970 HDMI and panel
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: Solve SR Cannot Display Problems.
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: Solve HDMI compatibility Problem.
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: Support MIPI DSI 3 lanes for hikey970.
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: Solve SR test reset problem for hikey970.
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: add debug prints for this driver
> staging: hikey9xx/gpu: Add support 10.1 inch special HDMI displays.
>
> .../display/hisilicon,hi3660-dpe.yaml | 99 +
> .../display/hisilicon,hi3660-dsi.yaml | 102 +
> .../boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3670-hikey970.dts | 56 +-
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3670.dtsi | 77 +
> .../boot/dts/hisilicon/hikey970-drm.dtsi | 93 +
> .../boot/dts/hisilicon/hikey970-pinctrl.dtsi | 548 +++-
> .../boot/dts/hisilicon/hikey970-pmic.dtsi | 197 ++
> drivers/staging/hikey9xx/Kconfig | 3 +
> drivers/staging/hikey9xx/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/Kconfig | 22 +
> drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/Makefile | 9 +
> drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin960_defs.c | 378 +++
> .../staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin960_dpe_reg.h | 233 ++
> drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin970_defs.c | 381 +++
> .../staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin970_dpe_reg.h | 1188 ++++++++
> drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_dpe.h | 2437 +++++++++++++++++
> .../hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_dpe_utils.c | 1178 ++++++++
> .../hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_dpe_utils.h | 286 ++
> .../staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_drv.c | 368 +++
> .../staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_drv.h | 57 +
> .../staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_dss.c | 1063 +++++++
> .../hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_overlay_utils.c | 1005 +++++++
> .../hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_dw_drm_dsi.c | 2132 ++++++++++++++
> .../hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_dw_dsi_reg.h | 146 +
> .../staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_fb_panel.h | 191 ++
> 25 files changed, 12229 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon,hi3660-dpe.yaml
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon,hi3660-dsi.yaml

Patch that intropduce new bindings must following the submitting patches
guidelines for bindings. For once the subject is "dt-bindings: bla bla".

Sam

> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hikey970-drm.dtsi
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hikey970-pmic.dtsi
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin960_defs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin960_dpe_reg.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin970_defs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin970_dpe_reg.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_dpe.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_dpe_utils.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_dpe_utils.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_drv.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_drv.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_dss.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_drm_overlay_utils.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_dw_drm_dsi.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_dw_dsi_reg.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/hikey9xx/gpu/kirin9xx_fb_panel.h
>
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