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Now that the eDP panel driver only handles eDP panels we can make
better sense of the delays here. Let's describe them in terms of the
standard eDP timing diagram from the eDP spec.
As part of this, it becomes pretty clear that some eDP panels have too
long of a "hpd_reliable_delay". This used to be the "prepare"
delay. It's the fixed delay that we do in the panel driver after
powering on our panel before we look at the HPD signal. To understand
this better, first realize that there could be 3 paths we follow
depending on how HPD is hooked up. Let's walk through them:
1. HPD is handled by the eDP controller driver. Until "recently"
(commit 48834e6084 ("drm/panel-simple: Support hpd-gpios for
delaying prepare()") in May 2020) this was the only supported
way. This is supposed to be when the controller driver gets HPD
straight to a dedicated pin. In this case the controller driver
should be waiting for HPD in its pre_enable() routine which should
be called right after the panel's prepare() function is
called. That means that the old "prepare" delay was only needed as
a delay after powering the panel but before looking at HPD.
2. HPD is handled via hpd-gpios in the panel. This is much like #1 but
much easier to follow since all the handling is in the panel
driver.
3. The no-hpd case. This is also easy to follow.
In any case, even though it seems like some old panel data was using
this incorrectly, let's not touch the old data structures but we'll
add a note indicating that something seems off.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210914132020.v5.11.I2d798dd015332661c5895ef744bc8ec5cd2e06ca@changeid
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