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drm/bridge: Improve overview documentation

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Clean up the drm_bridge overview documentation, and expand the
operations documentation to provide more details on API usage.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200226112514.12455-7-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com
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Laurent Pinchart 2020-02-26 13:24:26 +02:00 committed by Tomi Valkeinen
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Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst
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@ -139,11 +139,11 @@ Overview
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
:doc: overview
Default bridge callback sequence
--------------------------------
Bridge Operations
-----------------
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
:doc: bridge callbacks
:doc: bridge operations
Bridge Helper Reference

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drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
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@ -39,26 +39,50 @@
* encoder chain.
*
* A bridge is always attached to a single &drm_encoder at a time, but can be
* either connected to it directly, or through an intermediate bridge::
* either connected to it directly, or through a chain of bridges::
*
* encoder ---> bridge B ---> bridge A
* [ CRTC ---> ] Encoder ---> Bridge A ---> Bridge B
*
* Here, the output of the encoder feeds to bridge B, and that furthers feeds to
* bridge A.
* Here, the output of the encoder feeds to bridge A, and that furthers feeds to
* bridge B. Bridge chains can be arbitrarily long, and shall be fully linear:
* Chaining multiple bridges to the output of a bridge, or the same bridge to
* the output of different bridges, is not supported.
*
* The driver using the bridge is responsible to make the associations between
* the encoder and bridges. Once these links are made, the bridges will
* participate along with encoder functions to perform mode_set/enable/disable
* through the ops provided in &drm_bridge_funcs.
* Display drivers are responsible for linking encoders with the first bridge
* in the chains. This is done by acquiring the appropriate bridge with
* of_drm_find_bridge() or drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge(), or creating it for a
* panel with drm_panel_bridge_add_typed() (or the managed version
* devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed()). Once acquired, the bridge shall be
* attached to the encoder with a call to drm_bridge_attach().
*
* drm_bridge, like drm_panel, aren't drm_mode_object entities like planes,
* Bridges are responsible for linking themselves with the next bridge in the
* chain, if any. This is done the same way as for encoders, with the call to
* drm_bridge_attach() occurring in the &drm_bridge_funcs.attach operation.
*
* Once these links are created, the bridges can participate along with encoder
* functions to perform mode validation and fixup (through
* drm_bridge_chain_mode_valid() and drm_atomic_bridge_chain_check()), mode
* setting (through drm_bridge_chain_mode_set()), enable (through
* drm_atomic_bridge_chain_pre_enable() and drm_atomic_bridge_chain_enable())
* and disable (through drm_atomic_bridge_chain_disable() and
* drm_atomic_bridge_chain_post_disable()). Those functions call the
* corresponding operations provided in &drm_bridge_funcs in sequence for all
* bridges in the chain.
*
* For display drivers that use the atomic helpers
* drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(),
* drm_atomic_helper_commit_modeset_enables() and
* drm_atomic_helper_commit_modeset_disables() (either directly in hand-rolled
* commit check and commit tail handlers, or through the higher-level
* drm_atomic_helper_check() and drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail() or
* drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm() helpers), this is done transparently and
* requires no intervention from the driver. For other drivers, the relevant
* DRM bridge chain functions shall be called manually.
*
* &drm_bridge, like &drm_panel, aren't &drm_mode_object entities like planes,
* CRTCs, encoders or connectors and hence are not visible to userspace. They
* just provide additional hooks to get the desired output at the end of the
* encoder chain.
*
* Bridges can also be chained up using the &drm_bridge.chain_node field.
*
* Both legacy CRTC helpers and the new atomic modeset helpers support bridges.
*/
static DEFINE_MUTEX(bridge_lock);
@ -212,14 +236,41 @@ void drm_bridge_detach(struct drm_bridge *bridge)
}
/**
* DOC: bridge callbacks
* DOC: bridge operations
*
* The &drm_bridge_funcs ops are populated by the bridge driver. The DRM
* internals (atomic and CRTC helpers) use the helpers defined in drm_bridge.c
* These helpers call a specific &drm_bridge_funcs op for all the bridges
* during encoder configuration.
* Bridge drivers expose operations through the &drm_bridge_funcs structure.
* The DRM internals (atomic and CRTC helpers) use the helpers defined in
* drm_bridge.c to call bridge operations. Those operations are divided in
* two big categories to support different parts of the bridge usage.
*
* For detailed specification of the bridge callbacks see &drm_bridge_funcs.
* - The encoder-related operations support control of the bridges in the
* chain, and are roughly counterparts to the &drm_encoder_helper_funcs
* operations. They are used by the legacy CRTC and the atomic modeset
* helpers to perform mode validation, fixup and setting, and enable and
* disable the bridge automatically.
*
* The enable and disable operations are split in
* &drm_bridge_funcs.pre_enable, &drm_bridge_funcs.enable,
* &drm_bridge_funcs.disable and &drm_bridge_funcs.post_disable to provide
* finer-grained control.
*
* Bridge drivers may implement the legacy version of those operations, or
* the atomic version (prefixed with atomic\_), in which case they shall also
* implement the atomic state bookkeeping operations
* (&drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state,
* &drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_destroy_state and &drm_bridge_funcs.reset).
* Mixing atomic and non-atomic versions of the operations is not supported.
*
* - The bus format negotiation operations
* &drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_get_output_bus_fmts and
* &drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_get_input_bus_fmts allow bridge drivers to
* negotiate the formats transmitted between bridges in the chain when
* multiple formats are supported. Negotiation for formats is performed
* transparently for display drivers by the atomic modeset helpers. Only
* atomic versions of those operations exist, bridge drivers that need to
* implement them shall thus also implement the atomic version of the
* encoder-related operations. This feature is not supported by the legacy
* CRTC helpers.
*/
/**