Display¶
HDMI, MIPI-DSI and LVDS¶
DART-MX8M-PLUS SoC supports LVDS, HDMI and MIPI-DSI interfaces.
DART-MX8M-PLUS carrier board comes with LVDS and HDMI connectors, so you can easily connect LVDS and HDMI displays.
Connecting MIPI-DSI display to DART-MX8M-PLUS carrier board requires designing a custom connector.
Adding custom LVDS panel¶
DART-MX8M-PLUS evaluation kit comes with 800x480 LCD panel. DART-MX8M-PLUS DTS file was created with this panel in mind.
To support a custom LVDS panel you should make several modifications.
The following code references Variscite panel in arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-var-dart.dts under kernel source tree
panel {
compatible = "sgd,gktw70sdae4se", "panel-lvds";
backlight = <&backlight>;
width-mm = <153>;
height-mm = <87>;
label = "gktw70sdae4se";
data-mapping = "jeida-24";
status = "okay";
panel-timing {
clock-frequency = <33000000>;
hactive = <800>;
vactive = <480>;
hback-porch = <40>;
hfront-porch = <40>;
vback-porch = <29>;
vfront-porch = <13>;
hsync-len = <48>;
vsync-len = <3>;
hsync-active = <0>;
vsync-active = <0>;
de-active = <1>;
};
...
};
&ldb {
status = "okay";
lvds-channel@0 {
fsl,data-mapping = "jeida";
fsl,data-width = <24>;
status = "okay";
...
};
You should modify panel "data-mapping" and "display-timings" properties to match your panel specification.
You should also modify ldb (internal LVDS bridge) "fsl,data-mapping" and "fsl,data-width" properties to match your panel specification.
Supported "data-mapping" values are "jeida-18", "jeida-24" and "vesa-24".
Supported "fsl,data-mapping" values are "jeida", and "spwg".
Supported "fsl,data-width" values are <18>, and <24>.
For dual channel LVDS panels add fsl,dual-channel property to ldb node, as in the example below:
&ldb {
status = "okay";
fsl,dual-channel;
lvds-channel@0 {
fsl,data-mapping = "jeida";
fsl,data-width = <24>;
status = "okay";
...
};
Rotating the Weston display¶
To rotate the Weston display, edit /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini.
For example, rotate the display 90 degrees:
[output]