drm/i915: Add a brief description of the VLV display PHY internals

Document the internal structure of the VLV display PHY a bit to help
people understand how the different register blocks relate to each
other.

v2: Add a bit more text
    Make it a DOC: comment, but leave the ascii art out since
    it would get mangled

Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chon Ming Lee <chon.ming.lee@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

2 files changed, 85 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
index 62573c17091d..b4f12d455166 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
@@ -2937,6 +2937,10 @@ int num_ioctls;</synopsis>
           probing, so those sections fully apply.
         </para>
       </sect2>
+      <sect2>
+        <title>DPIO</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h DPIO
+      </sect2>
     </sect1>
 
     <sect1>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
index bab5d17f67d1..9b3681ee4a69 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
@@ -575,12 +575,89 @@ enum punit_power_well {
 #define  DSI_PLL_M1_DIV_MASK                    (0x1ff << 0)
 #define CCK_DISPLAY_CLOCK_CONTROL               0x6b
 
-/*
- * DPIO - a special bus for various display related registers to hide behind
+/**
+ * DOC: DPIO
+ *
+ * VLV and CHV have slightly peculiar display PHYs for driving DP/HDMI
+ * ports. DPIO is the name given to such a display PHY. These PHYs
+ * don't follow the standard programming model using direct MMIO
+ * registers, and instead their registers must be accessed trough IOSF
+ * sideband. VLV has one such PHY for driving ports B and C, and CHV
+ * adds another PHY for driving port D. Each PHY responds to specific
+ * IOSF-SB port.
+ *
+ * Each display PHY is made up of one or two channels. Each channel
+ * houses a common lane part which contains the PLL and other common
+ * logic. CH0 common lane also contains the IOSF-SB logic for the
+ * Common Register Interface (CRI) ie. the DPIO registers. CRI clock
+ * must be running when any DPIO registers are accessed.
+ *
+ * In addition to having their own registers, the PHYs are also
+ * controlled through some dedicated signals from the display
+ * controller. These include PLL reference clock enable, PLL enable,
+ * and CRI clock selection, for example.
+ *
+ * Eeach channel also has two splines (also called data lanes), and
+ * each spline is made up of one Physical Access Coding Sub-Layer
+ * (PCS) block and two TX lanes. So each channel has two PCS blocks
+ * and four TX lanes. The TX lanes are used as DP lanes or TMDS
+ * data/clock pairs depending on the output type.
+ *
+ * Additionally the PHY also contains an AUX lane with AUX blocks
+ * for each channel. This is used for DP AUX communication, but
+ * this fact isn't really relevant for the driver since AUX is
+ * controlled from the display controller side. No DPIO registers
+ * need to be accessed during AUX communication,
+ *
+ * Generally the common lane corresponds to the pipe and
+ * the spline (PCS/TX) correponds to the port.
+ *
+ * For dual channel PHY (VLV/CHV):
+ *
+ *  pipe A == CMN/PLL/REF CH0
  *
- * DPIO is VLV only.
+ *  pipe B == CMN/PLL/REF CH1
+ *
+ *  port B == PCS/TX CH0
+ *
+ *  port C == PCS/TX CH1
+ *
+ * This is especially important when we cross the streams
+ * ie. drive port B with pipe B, or port C with pipe A.
+ *
+ * For single channel PHY (CHV):
+ *
+ *  pipe C == CMN/PLL/REF CH0
+ *
+ *  port D == PCS/TX CH0
+ *
+ * Note: digital port B is DDI0, digital port C is DDI1,
+ * digital port D is DDI2
+ */
+/*
+ * Dual channel PHY (VLV/CHV)
+ * ---------------------------------
+ * |      CH0      |      CH1      |
+ * |  CMN/PLL/REF  |  CMN/PLL/REF  |
+ * |---------------|---------------| Display PHY
+ * | PCS01 | PCS23 | PCS01 | PCS23 |
+ * |-------|-------|-------|-------|
+ * |TX0|TX1|TX2|TX3|TX0|TX1|TX2|TX3|
+ * ---------------------------------
+ * |     DDI0      |     DDI1      | DP/HDMI ports
+ * ---------------------------------
  *
- * Note: digital port B is DDI0, digital pot C is DDI1
+ * Single channel PHY (CHV)
+ * -----------------
+ * |      CH0      |
+ * |  CMN/PLL/REF  |
+ * |---------------| Display PHY
+ * | PCS01 | PCS23 |
+ * |-------|-------|
+ * |TX0|TX1|TX2|TX3|
+ * -----------------
+ * |     DDI2      | DP/HDMI port
+ * -----------------
  */
 #define DPIO_DEVFN                      0