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Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge.

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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:53:00PM +0530, Archit Taneja wrote:
> +panel/bridge reviewers.
> 
> This does make things much cleaner, but it seems a bit strange to create
> a drm_bridge when there isn't really a HW bridge in the display chain (i.e,
> when the DSI encoder is directly connected to a DSI panel).
> 
> There are kms drivers that use drm_panel, but don't have simple stub connectors
> that wrap around a drm_panel. They have more complicated connector ops, and
> may call drm_panel_prepare() and related functions a bit differently. We won't
> be able to use drm_panel_bridge for those drivers.
> 
> For msm, we check whether the DSI encoder is connected directly to a panel
> or an external bridge. If it's connected to an external bridge, we skip the
> creation of the stub connector, and rely on the external bridge driver to
> create the connector:
> 
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi.c#L227
> 
> The msm solution isn't very neat, but it avoids the need to create another
> bridge to glue things together.

Since I suggested this, yes I like it. And I think just unconditionally
creating the panel bridge is probably even simpler, after all bridges are
supposed to be chainable. I guess there's always going to be drivers where
we need special handling, but I'm kinda hoping that for most cases simply
plugging in a panel bridge is all that's need to glue drm_panel support
into a driver. The simple pipe helpers do support bridges, and part of the
goal there very much was to make it easy to glue in panel drivers.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch

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[PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2017-04-27 18:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2017-04-27 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Archit Taneja <architt@codeaurora.org> - 2017-05-03 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge. Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> - 2017-05-03 11:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2017-05-03 16:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge. Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> - 2017-05-03 16:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2017-05-03 18:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2017-05-04 07:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 14:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com> - 2017-05-05 08:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge. Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> - 2017-05-03 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2017-05-03 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the lvds-encoder bridge. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2017-05-03 18:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Archit Taneja <architt@codeaurora.org> - 2017-05-04 11:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the  lvds-encoder bridge. Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2017-05-03 11:40 +0200

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