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+1. stiH display hardware IP
+---------------------------
+The STMicroelectronics stiH SoCs use a common chain of HW display IP blocks:
+- The High Quality Video Display Processor (HQVDP) gets video frames from a
+ video decoder and does high quality video processing, including scaling.
+
+- The Compositor is a multiplane, dual-mixer (Main & Aux) digital processor. It
+ has several inputs:
+ - The graphics planes are internally processed by the Generic Display
+ Pipeline (GDP).
+ - The video plug (VID) connects to the HQVDP output.
+ - The cursor handles ... a cursor.
+- The TV OUT pre-formats (convert, clip, round) the compositor output data
+- The HDMI / DVO / HD Analog / SD analog IP builds the video signals
+ - DVO (Digital Video Output) handles a 24bits parallel signal
+ - The HD analog signal is typically driven by a YCbCr cable, supporting up to
+ 1080i mode.
+ - The SD analog signal is typically used for legacy TV
+- The VTG (Video Timing Generators) build Vsync signals used by the other HW IP
+Note that some stiH drivers support only a subset of thee HW IP.
+
+ .-------------. .-----------. .-----------.
+GPU >-------------+GDP Main | | +---+ HDMI +--> HDMI
+GPU >-------------+GDP mixer+---+ | :===========:
+GPU >-------------+Cursor | | +---+ DVO +--> 24b//
+ ------- | COMPOSITOR | | TV OUT | :===========:
+ | | | | | +---+ HD analog +--> YCbCr
+Vid >--+ HQVDP +--+VID Aux +---+ | :===========:
+dec | | | mixer| | +---+ SD analog +--> CVBS
+ '-------' '-------------' '-----------' '-----------'
+ .-----------.
+ | main+--> Vsync
+ | VTG |
+ | aux+--> Vsync
+ '-----------'
+
+2. DRM / HW mapping
+-------------------
+These IP are mapped to the DRM objects as following:
+- The CRTCs are mapped to the Compositor Main and Aux Mixers
+- The Framebuffers and planes are mapped to the Compositor GDP (non video
+ buffers) and to HQVDP+VID (video buffers)
+- The Cursor is mapped to the Compositor Cursor
+- The Encoders are mapped to the TVOut
+- The Bridges/Connectors are mapped to the HDMI / DVO / HD Analog / SD analog
+
+FB & planes Cursor CRTC Encoders Bridges/Connectors
+ | | | | |
+ | | | | |
+ | .-------------. | .-----------. .-----------. |
+ +------------> |GDP | Main | | | +-> | | HDMI | <-+
+ +------------> |GDP v mixer|<+ | | | :===========: |
+ | |Cursor | | | +-> | | DVO | <-+
+ | ------- | COMPOSITOR | | |TV OUT | | :===========: |
+ | | | | | | | +-> | | HD analog | <-+
+ +-> | HQVDP | |VID Aux |<+ | | | :===========: |
+ | | | mixer| | +-> | | SD analog | <-+
+ '-------' '-------------' '-----------' '-----------'