video: add display_timing and videomode

Add display_timing structure and the according helper functions. This allows
the description of a display via its supported timing parameters.

Also, add helper functions to convert from display timings to a generic videomode
structure.

The struct display_timing specifies all needed parameters to describe the signal
properties of a display in one mode. This includes
    - ranges for signals that may have min-, max- and typical values
    - single integers for signals that can be on, off or are ignored
    - booleans for signals that are either on or off

As a display may support multiple modes like this, a struct display_timings is
added, that holds all given struct display_timing pointers and declares the
native mode of the display.

Although a display may state that a signal can be in a range, it is driven with
fixed values that indicate a videomode. Therefore graphic drivers don't need all
the information of struct display_timing, but would generate a videomode from
the given set of supported signal timings and work with that.

The video subsystems all define their own structs that describe a mode and work
with that (e.g. fb_videomode or drm_display_mode). To slowly replace all those
various structures and allow code reuse across those subsystems, add struct
videomode as a generic description.

This patch only includes the most basic fields in struct videomode. All missing
fields that are needed to have a really generic video mode description can be
added at a later stage.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Tested-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Tested-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Afzal Mohammed <Afzal@ti.com>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <robclark@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Leela Krishna Amudala <leelakrishna.a@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/display_timing.c b/drivers/video/display_timing.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5e1822cef57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/video/display_timing.c
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * generic display timing functions
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2012 Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>, Pengutronix
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPLv2
+ */
+
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <video/display_timing.h>
+
+void display_timings_release(struct display_timings *disp)
+{
+	if (disp->timings) {
+		unsigned int i;
+
+		for (i = 0; i < disp->num_timings; i++)
+			kfree(disp->timings[i]);
+		kfree(disp->timings);
+	}
+	kfree(disp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(display_timings_release);