Hi,
This patch series adds support for panels to DRM. The current implementation is very basic and only provides hooks for a panel to handle DPMS changes and return a list of supported modes. That should be enough to support a rather large number of panels. It should also be easy to extend the framework for more sophisticated panels such as DSI.
I'm aware of the existing efforts to create such a framework, called CDF. My impression was that a lot of people thought it overengineered and that it doesn't fit well into the existing DRM infrastructure. This alternative proposal is an attempt to start with something simpler (yet extensible) that fits into DRM more nicely.
Patch 1 adds the "framework" if one can call it that. At the moment it isn't anything more than a global registry that panel drivers can register panels with and display drivers can retrieve them. All of this is very device tree centric right now, but it shouldn't be difficult to add support for platform data.
Patch 2 implements a simple driver for dumb panels that can have a regulator for the supply voltage of the panel and a separate GPIO to enable the panel. Three simple panels are currently supported by that driver.
Finally patch 3 hooks up the panel framework with the Tegra DRM driver. Note that the framework isn't tied to the core at the moment. That can easily be changed if we want to, but I didn't see a need so far. Instead the driver calls the .dpms() and .get_modes() hooks in it's encoder/connector implementation.
Thierry
Thierry Reding (3): drm: Add panel support drm/panel: Add simple panel support drm/tegra: Implement panel support
.../devicetree/bindings/panel/panel-simple.txt | 25 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c | 96 ++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Kconfig | 17 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Makefile | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c | 335 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/host1x/drm/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/host1x/drm/drm.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/host1x/drm/output.c | 28 +- include/drm/drm_panel.h | 65 ++++ 11 files changed, 571 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/panel/panel-simple.txt create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c create mode 100644 include/drm/drm_panel.h