[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] video: Add support for SSD2828 (parallel LCD to MIPI bridge)

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Sat Jan 10 10:17:28 CET 2015


Hi,

On 09-01-15 16:35, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09-01-15 11:01, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This patchset adds support for the Solomon Systech SSD2828 bridge chip,
>> which is used to convert parallel LCD interface into MIPI DSI interface
>> and drive MIPI LCD display in some tablets. In particular, this allows
>> to have a working LCD display in my Allwinner A31s based MSI Primo81 tablet.
>>
>> The core of the SSD2828 support code is generic and should work with
>> any SoC (as long as the hardware supports the standard u-boot GPIO API).
>> It also does not have any hardcoded assumptions about the MSI Primo81
>> display and should be able to drive any MIPI LCD panel (as long as the
>> number of data lanes and the bitrate per lane is provided in the
>> config struct). The code tries to follow the standard power-up sequence
>> described in the SSD2828 datasheet. However it has been tested only
>> on my MSI Primo81 tablet so far.
>>
>> The sunxi specific part includes a small glue code in the sunxi display
>> driver and the defconfig update for the MSI Primo81 tablet.
>>
>> This can be applied after
>>      http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-January/200753.html
>> 'sunxi: video: Add lvds support' patchset to the 'next' branch
>> in the u-boot-sunxi repository.
>>
>> And here is a bonus picture :-)
>>      http://linux-sunxi.org/File:MSI_Primo81_and_LCD_support_in_u-boot.jpg
>
> Cool :)

I've just pushed v2 of my lvds-patch to u-boot-sunxi/next with Anatolij's
ack, and I see that Anatolij has also reviewed this series, when you do
a v2 please base it on top of u-boot-sunxi/next.

Thanks,

Hans



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