We are about to remove the dss bus support, which also means that the
omap_dss_device won't be a real device anymore. This means that the
embedded "dev" struct needs to be removed from omap_dss_device.
After we've finished the removal of the dss bus, we see the following
changes:
- struct omap_dss_device won't be a real Linux device anymore, but more
like a "display entity".
- struct omap_dss_driver won't be a Linux device driver, but "display
entity ops".
- The panel devices/drivers won't be omapdss devices/drivers, but
platform/i2c/spi/etc devices/drivers, whichever fits the control
mechanism of the panel.
- The panel drivers will create omap_dss_device and omap_dss_driver,
fill the required fields, and register the omap_dss_device to
omapdss.
- omap_dss_device won't have an embedded dev struct anymore, but a
dev pointer to the actual device that manages the omap_dss_device.
The model described above resembles the model that has been discussed
with CDF (common display framework).
For the duration of the conversion, we temporarily have two devs in the
dssdev, the old "old_dev", which is a full embedded device struct, and the
new "dev", which is a pointer to the device. "old_dev" will be removed
in the future.
For devices belonging to dss bus the dev is initialized to point to
old_dev. This way all the code can just use the dev, for both old and
new style panels.
Both the new and old style panel drivers work during the conversion, and
only after the dss bus support is removed will the old style panels stop
to compile.
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
We aim to remove the custom omapdss bus totally, as it's quite a strange
construct and won't be compatible with common display framework. One
problem on the road is that we have sysfs files for each display, and
they depend on the omapdss bus.
This patch creates the display sysfs files independent of the omapdss
bus. This gives us backwards compatibility without using the omapdss bus
for the sysfs files.
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
We currently have two steps in panel initialization and startup: probing
and enabling. After the panel has been probed, it's ready and can be
configured and later enabled.
This model is not enough with more complex display pipelines, where we
may have, for example, two panels, of which only one can be used at a
time, connected to the same video output.
To support that kind of scenarios, we need to add new step to the
initialization: connect.
This patch adds support for connecting and disconnecting panels. After
probe, but before connect, no panel ops should be called. When the
connect is called, a proper video pipeline is established, and the panel
is ready for use. If some part in the video pipeline is already
connected (by some other panel), the connect call fails.
One key difference with the old style setup is that connect() handles
also connecting to the overlay manager. This means that the omapfb (or
omapdrm) no longer needs to figure out which overlay manager to use, but
it can just call connect() on the panel, and the proper overlay manager
is connected by omapdss.
This also allows us to add back the support for dynamic switching
between two exclusive panels. However, the current panel device model is
not changed to support this, as the new device model is implemented in
the following patches and the old model will be removed. The new device
model supports dynamic switching.
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Move display sysfs related code from display.c to display-sysfs.c, for
clarity. The sysfs code will only be used for compat mode.
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
