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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: mxsfb: Set proper default bus format when using a
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From:   Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
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Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:22:10 +0200
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On 9/28/21 11:19 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:08:58AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 9/28/21 10:55 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
>>> If a bridge doesn't do any bus format handling MEDIA_BUS_FMT_FIXED is
>>> returned. Fallback to a reasonable default (MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X24) in
>>> that case.
>>>
>>> This unbreaks e.g. using mxsfb with the nwl bridge and mipi panels.
>>>
>>> Fixes: b776b0f00f24 ("drm: mxsfb: Use bus_format from the nearest bridge if present")
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> I'll look at what needs to be done in nwl separately but this also
>>> unbreaks other bridge seupts that don't to format negotiation yet.
>>>
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/mxsfb_kms.c | 2 ++
>>>    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/mxsfb_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/mxsfb_kms.c
>>> index af6c620adf6e..4ef94cf686b0 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/mxsfb_kms.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/mxsfb_kms.c
>>> @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ static void mxsfb_crtc_atomic_enable(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>    			drm_atomic_get_new_bridge_state(state,
>>>    							mxsfb->bridge);
>>>    		bus_format = bridge_state->input_bus_cfg.format;
>>> +		if (bus_format == MEDIA_BUS_FMT_FIXED)
>>> +			bus_format = MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X24;
>>
>> Shouldn't the NWL bridge return the correct format ?
> 
> Yes it should and I'll send a separate patch for that but we currently
> don't do anything meaningful at all if the bridge doesn't do format
> negotiation and then fail setup in mxsfb_set_formats().
> 
> I think we should at least preserve the status quo (as we do with the
> non bridge case in b776b0f00f24 too).
> 
> We could have a warning to spot drivers that don't do that yet and hence
> the generic code returns MEDIA_BUS_FMT_FIXED.

I am not gonna push back against this patch, I think you need feedback 
from the drm people on this. A warning would indeed be nice. Preserving 
the old behavior in stable releases would be good (if there are any 
releases which contain the mxsfb patch this fixes).