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[v5,2/6] dt-bindings: auxdisplay: Add Titan Micro Electronics TM1628

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Series auxdisplay: Add support for the Titanmec TM1628 7 segment display controller | expand

Commit Message

Heiner Kallweit Feb. 25, 2022, 9:13 p.m. UTC
Add a YAML schema binding for TM1628 auxdisplay
(7/11-segment LED) controller.

This patch is partially based on previous work from
Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>.

Co-developed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
---
v5:
- add vendor prefix to driver-specific properties
---
 .../bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml  | 92 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 92 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml

Comments

Robin Murphy March 18, 2022, 8:50 p.m. UTC | #1
On 2022-02-25 21:13, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Add a YAML schema binding for TM1628 auxdisplay
> (7/11-segment LED) controller.
> 
> This patch is partially based on previous work from
> Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
> ---
> v5:
> - add vendor prefix to driver-specific properties
> ---
>   .../bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml  | 92 +++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 92 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..2a1ef692c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Titan Micro Electronics TM1628 LED controller
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> +  - Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
> +
> +allOf:
> +  - $ref: /schemas/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml#
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    const: titanmec,tm1628
> +
> +  reg:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  titanmec,grid:
> +    description:
> +      Mapping of display digit position to grid number.
> +      This implicitly defines the display size.
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint8-array
> +    minItems: 1
> +    maxItems: 7
> +
> +  titanmec,segment-mapping:
> +    description:
> +      Mapping of 7 segment display segments A-G to bit numbers 1-12.
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint8-array
> +    minItems: 7
> +    maxItems: 7
> +
> +  "#address-cells":
> +    const: 2
> +
> +  "#size-cells":
> +    const: 0
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +  - reg

Would it be fair to say that "spi-lsb-first" and "spi-3wire" are also 
required? The chips aren't configurable so won't exactly be usable any 
other way. Furthermore I believe the transmission format actually works 
out equivalent to SPI mode 3, so should warrant "spi-cpha" and 
"spi-cpol" as well.

> +
> +patternProperties:
> +  "^.*@[1-7],([1-9]|1[0-6])$":
> +    type: object
> +    $ref: /schemas/leds/common.yaml#
> +    unevaluatedProperties: false
> +    description: |
> +      Properties for a single LED.
> +
> +    properties:
> +      reg:
> +        description: |
> +          1-based grid number, followed by 1-based segment bit number.
> +        maxItems: 1
> +
> +    required:
> +      - reg

I'm concerned that this leaves us no room to support the additional 
keypad functionality in future. Having now double-checked a datasheet, 
the inputs are also a two-dimensional mux (sharing the segment lines), 
so the device effectively has two distinct but numerically-overlapping 
child address spaces - one addressed by (grid,segment) and the other by 
(segment,key).

Rob, Krysztof, any thoughts on the best DT idiom to leave accommodation 
for that? I'm thinking either require an intermediate node to contain 
each notional address space, or perhaps add another leading address cell 
to select between them? I don't believe any of these things have further 
functionality beyond that.

Thanks,
Robin.

> +
> +unevaluatedProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    #include <dt-bindings/leds/common.h>
> +
> +    spi {
> +        #address-cells = <1>;
> +        #size-cells = <0>;
> +
> +        led-controller@0 {
> +            compatible = "titanmec,tm1628";
> +            reg = <0>;
> +            spi-3-wire;
> +            spi-lsb-first;
> +            spi-max-frequency = <500000>;
> +            titanmec,grid = /bits/ 8 <4 3 2 1>;
> +            titanmec,segment-mapping = /bits/ 8 <4 5 6 1 2 3 7>;
> +            #address-cells = <2>;
> +            #size-cells = <0>;
> +
> +            alarm@5,4 {
> +                reg = <5 4>;
> +                function = LED_FUNCTION_ALARM;
> +            };
> +        };
> +    };
> +...
Robin Murphy April 19, 2022, 10:31 p.m. UTC | #2
On 2022-03-21 08:12, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:50 PM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote:
>> On 2022-02-25 21:13, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>> Add a YAML schema binding for TM1628 auxdisplay
>>> (7/11-segment LED) controller.
>>>
>>> This patch is partially based on previous work from
>>> Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>.
>>>
>>> Co-developed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
> 
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml
> 
>>> +
>>> +patternProperties:
>>> +  "^.*@[1-7],([1-9]|1[0-6])$":
>>> +    type: object
>>> +    $ref: /schemas/leds/common.yaml#
>>> +    unevaluatedProperties: false
>>> +    description: |
>>> +      Properties for a single LED.
>>> +
>>> +    properties:
>>> +      reg:
>>> +        description: |
>>> +          1-based grid number, followed by 1-based segment bit number.
>>> +        maxItems: 1
>>> +
>>> +    required:
>>> +      - reg
>>
>> I'm concerned that this leaves us no room to support the additional
>> keypad functionality in future. Having now double-checked a datasheet,
>> the inputs are also a two-dimensional mux (sharing the segment lines),
>> so the device effectively has two distinct but numerically-overlapping
>> child address spaces - one addressed by (grid,segment) and the other by
>> (segment,key).
> 
> Sounds similar to HT16K33?

/me searches up a datasheet...

Keypad-wise, it appears so, however the display side of this 
1618/1628/1638 family is very much tuned for 7-segment displays rather 
than arbitrary dot-matrix ones.

I do recall when I was digging a few years ago, turning up an old Holtek 
VFD driver which looked suspiciously like it might be the origin of the 
particular 3-wire protocol and command set (including weird non-linear 
brightness scale) which all these LED driver clones seem to borrow from, 
but I can't now remember the part number :(

>> Rob, Krysztof, any thoughts on the best DT idiom to leave accommodation
>> for that? I'm thinking either require an intermediate node to contain
>> each notional address space, or perhaps add another leading address cell
>> to select between them? I don't believe any of these things have further
>> functionality beyond that.
> 
> The problem with these devices is that there are thousands of different
> ways to wire them, and coming up with a generic wiring description in
> DT and writing code to handle that can be very hard.
> 
> For HT16K33 non-dot-matrix wirings, I just added extra compatible
> values matching the wiring of a few known devices[1].  That way the
> driver can handle them efficiently.
> It does have the disadvantage that adding support for new devices
> means introducing more compatible values, and adding more code.
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/holtek,ht16k33.yaml

I think the display side of Heiner's binding is fine for what these 
chips can do - I've finally had a bit more time to play with this 
series, and (with minor driver hacks) it works just fine to describe my 
TM1638 breakout board with an 8-digit display, where segments 8 and 9 of 
each grid are respectively a decimal point and a discrete indicator LED, 
managed as separate LED nodes.

However, I think you've indirectly addressed my outstanding concern 
there - I wasn't aware of the "linux,keymap" property, but since that 
brings its own implicit (row,column) addresses distinct from the DT 
address space, it looks like that might be sufficient as a neat standard 
way to extend this binding in future *without* any other changes.

Thanks,
Robin.
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a1ef692c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ 
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/auxdisplay/titanmec,tm1628.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Titan Micro Electronics TM1628 LED controller
+
+maintainers:
+  - Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
+  - Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
+
+allOf:
+  - $ref: /schemas/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml#
+
+properties:
+  compatible:
+    const: titanmec,tm1628
+
+  reg:
+    maxItems: 1
+
+  titanmec,grid:
+    description:
+      Mapping of display digit position to grid number.
+      This implicitly defines the display size.
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint8-array
+    minItems: 1
+    maxItems: 7
+
+  titanmec,segment-mapping:
+    description:
+      Mapping of 7 segment display segments A-G to bit numbers 1-12.
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint8-array
+    minItems: 7
+    maxItems: 7
+
+  "#address-cells":
+    const: 2
+
+  "#size-cells":
+    const: 0
+
+required:
+  - compatible
+  - reg
+
+patternProperties:
+  "^.*@[1-7],([1-9]|1[0-6])$":
+    type: object
+    $ref: /schemas/leds/common.yaml#
+    unevaluatedProperties: false
+    description: |
+      Properties for a single LED.
+
+    properties:
+      reg:
+        description: |
+          1-based grid number, followed by 1-based segment bit number.
+        maxItems: 1
+
+    required:
+      - reg
+
+unevaluatedProperties: false
+
+examples:
+  - |
+    #include <dt-bindings/leds/common.h>
+
+    spi {
+        #address-cells = <1>;
+        #size-cells = <0>;
+
+        led-controller@0 {
+            compatible = "titanmec,tm1628";
+            reg = <0>;
+            spi-3-wire;
+            spi-lsb-first;
+            spi-max-frequency = <500000>;
+            titanmec,grid = /bits/ 8 <4 3 2 1>;
+            titanmec,segment-mapping = /bits/ 8 <4 5 6 1 2 3 7>;
+            #address-cells = <2>;
+            #size-cells = <0>;
+
+            alarm@5,4 {
+                reg = <5 4>;
+                function = LED_FUNCTION_ALARM;
+            };
+        };
+    };
+...