Hi Sascha
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> This patch adds a helper function for parsing videomodes from the devicetree.
> The videomode can be either converted to a struct drm_display_mode or a
> struct fb_videomode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>
> changes since v1:
> - use hyphens instead of underscores for property names
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/video/displaymode | 40 ++++++++
> drivers/of/Kconfig | 5 +
> drivers/of/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/of/of_videomode.c | 108
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/of_videomode.h | 19 ++++
> 5 files changed, 173 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/displaymode
> create mode 100644 drivers/of/of_videomode.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/of_videomode.h
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/displaymode
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/displaymode
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..43cc17d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/displaymode
> @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
> +videomode bindings
> +==================
> +
> +Required properties:
> + - xres, yres: Display resolution
> + - left-margin, right-margin, hsync-len: Horizontal Display timing parameters
> + in pixels
> + upper-margin, lower-margin, vsync-len: Vertical display timing parameters
> in
> + lines
> + - clock: displayclock in Hz
> +
> +Optional properties:
> + - width-mm, height-mm: Display dimensions in mm
> + - hsync-active-high (bool): Hsync pulse is active high
> + - vsync-active-high (bool): Vsync pulse is active high
How about
+ - hsync-active: Hsync pulse polarity: 1 for high, 0 for low
and similar for vsync-active? Which would then become
> + - interlaced (bool): This is an interlaced mode
> + - doublescan (bool): This is a doublescan mode
> +
> +There are different ways of describing a display mode. The devicetree
> representation
> +corresponds to the one used by the Linux Framebuffer framework described
> here in
> +Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt. This representation has been chosen
> because it's
> +the only format which does not allow for inconsistent parameters.Unlike the
> Framebuffer
> +framework the devicetree has the clock in Hz instead of ps.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> + display at 0 {
> + /* 1920x1080p24 */
> + clock = <52000000>;
> + xres = <1920>;
> + yres = <1080>;
> + left-margin = <25>;
> + right-margin = <25>;
> + hsync-len = <25>;
> + lower-margin = <2>;
> + upper-margin = <2>;
> + vsync-len = <2>;
> + hsync-active-high;
+ hsync-active = <1>;
> + };
> +
Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/
