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* [PATCH 0/6] drm/bridge: Add a BPF-based MIPI-DSI panel driver
@ 2026-09-28 16:22 Maxime Ripard
  2026-09-28 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: display: Add panel-mipi-dsi-bpf generic panel binding Maxime Ripard
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From: Maxime Ripard @ 2026-09-28 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Neil Armstrong, Jessica Zhang, David Airlie, Simona Vetter,
	Maarten Lankhorst, Thomas Zimmermann, Rob Herring,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley, Nathan Chancellor,
	Nick Desaulniers, Bill Wendling, Justin Stitt, Florian Fainelli,
	Broadcom internal kernel review list
  Cc: Andrzej Hajda, Neil Armstrong, Robert Foss, Laurent Pinchart,
	Jonas Karlman, Jernej Skrabec, Luca Ceresoli, Albert Esteve,
	Dave Stevenson, Javier Martinez Canillas, dri-devel, devicetree,
	linux-kernel, bpf, llvm, linux-rpi-kernel, linux-arm-kernel,
	Maxime Ripard, Benjamin Tissoires

Hi,

Panels in general, and MIPI-DSI panels in particular, are pretty
difficult to support and require pretty much a panel driver for each
panel produced. Most of them are pretty simple, and require an opaque
initialization sequence that is usually poorly documented.

This creates a tension between OEMs and distros because OEMs will
typically get a new panel to react to a sourcing issue during
production, and thus need some swift turnaround between getting their
new panel and it being operational in the OS. Distributions on the other
hand can take years to ship a kernel with that new panel driver.

To solve this, I followed the example of HID-BPF and wrote a panel
driver that will rely on BPF programs to perform the panel
initialization. That way, we can ship the programs separately from the
kernel, and with a different lifecycle. If this driver is accepted, the
plan is to have a userspace component started by udev to identify and
load the right BPF program for the panels found on the device.

This driver is fully functional and works with both 5" and 7" Touch
Display 2 panels for the RaspberryPi. However, it breaks away from the
typical panel driver in multiple ways:

- BPF programs can only be loaded by userspace. This leaves us with two
  choices: 

  * We prevent the driver from loading until the script itself is
    loaded. This has the side effect of preventing any other output to
    be used until the initramfs is ran at the earliest, and possibly
    ever if the loader isn't installed for example.

  * Or we probe the driver all the time, but only report it as connected
    once a program has been registered. This is somewhat unconventional,
    but allows the other outputs to be functional, *and* allows the user
    to force the output if their panel doesn't require any
    initialization or during debugging. I chose this solution.

- It's not a panel driver, but a bridge one, which is also pretty
  unconventional. This is required because panel drivers don't have
  access to a detect callback that is required for the above, but I also
  think that the recent work from Luca blurs the line from panels and
  bridges and we'll end up going that road anyway.

Let me know what you think,
Maxime

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
---
Maxime Ripard (6):
      dt-bindings: display: Add panel-mipi-dsi-bpf generic panel binding
      drm/panel: Add generic MIPI-DSI panel driver with BPF init sequences
      drm/panel: dsi-bpf: Add BPF program build infrastructure and helper header
      drm/panel: dsi-bpf: Add Raspberry Pi 7-inch panel BPF program
      drm/panel: dsi-bpf: Add Raspberry Pi 5-inch panel BPF program
      [DO NOT MERGE] arm64: dts: broadcom: Add Raspberry Pi ILI9881C DSI panel overlays

 .../bindings/display/panel/panel-mipi-dsi-bpf.yaml | 184 +++++++++
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile              |   8 +
 .../bcm2711-rpi-4-b-dsi-ili9881-5inch.dtso         |  22 +
 .../bcm2711-rpi-4-b-dsi-ili9881-7inch.dtso         |  22 +
 .../dts/broadcom/bcm2711-rpi-4-b-dsi-ili9881.dtsi  |  65 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Kconfig                      |   3 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Makefile                     |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/bpf/Kconfig                  |  28 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/bpf/Makefile                 |  10 +
 .../gpu/drm/panel/bpf/panel-bpf-mipi-dsi-core.c    | 452 +++++++++++++++++++++
 .../gpu/drm/panel/bpf/panel-bpf-mipi-dsi-kfuncs.c  | 278 +++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/bpf/panel-bpf-mipi-dsi-ops.c | 242 +++++++++++
 .../gpu/drm/panel/bpf/panel-bpf-mipi-dsi-trace.c   |   4 +
 .../gpu/drm/panel/bpf/panel-bpf-mipi-dsi-trace.h   | 246 +++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/bpf/panel-bpf-mipi-dsi.h     | 264 ++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/bpf/progs/Makefile           |  93 +++++
 .../panel/bpf/progs/Raspberrypi__dsi-5inch.bpf.c   | 266 ++++++++++++
 .../panel/bpf/progs/Raspberrypi__dsi-7inch.bpf.c   | 271 ++++++++++++
 .../gpu/drm/panel/bpf/progs/panel-bpf-mipi-dsi.h   |  95 +++++
 19 files changed, 2554 insertions(+)
---
base-commit: 6e375de99d0c420169481fcd36064177ab55b09d
change-id: 20260928-drm-mipi-dsi-panel-ebpf-d78b72a9c47f

Best regards,
-- 
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


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2026-09-28 16:37 ` [PATCH 0/6] drm/bridge: Add a BPF-based MIPI-DSI panel driver Laurent Pinchart
2026-09-28 17:31   ` Benjamin Tissoires
2026-09-28 18:12     ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-09-28 16:39 ` Neil Armstrong
2026-09-28 17:24   ` Benjamin Tissoires
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2026-09-28 19:48       ` Benjamin Tissoires
2026-09-28 20:36         ` Neil Armstrong

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