drm: Introduce the DP AUX bus
authorDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:17:40 +0000 (10:17 -0700)
committerDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:30:39 +0000 (12:30 -0700)
commitaeb33699fc2c97994de0e9acb74d0fd319380614
tree20da9af095cae0f64efb6728308e3c24da4f4127
parent476c864dd4655bea0f7aed2845ab18ef47c4bf94
drm: Introduce the DP AUX bus

Historically "simple" eDP panels have been handled by panel-simple
which is a basic platform_device. In the device tree, the panel node
was at the top level and not connected to anything else.

Let's change it so that, instead, panels can be represented as being
children of the "DP AUX bus". Essentially we're saying that the
hierarchy that we're going to represent is the "control" connections
between devices. The DP AUX bus is a control bus provided by an eDP
controller (the parent) and consumed by a device like a panel (the
child).

The primary incentive here is to cleanly provide the panel driver the
ability to communicate over the AUX bus while handling lifetime issues
properly. The panel driver may want the AUX bus for controlling the
backlight or querying the panel's EDID.

The idea for this bus's design was hashed out over IRC [1].

[1] https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=dri-devel&date=2021-05-11

Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Rajeev Nandan <rajeevny@codeaurora.org>
Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210611101711.v10.4.I787c9ba09ed5ce12500326ded73a4f7c9265b1b3@changeid
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_aux_bus.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/drm/drm_dp_aux_bus.h [new file with mode: 0644]