[PATCH xf86-video-amdgpu 0/7] Enabling Color Management - Round 3

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Hi

Is there a way to set depth using a xorg.conf.d snippet rather than
creating an xorg.conf?

Cheers

Mike

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 at 17:01 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Leo,
>
>
> On 2018-06-01 06:03 PM, sunpeng.li at amd.com wrote:
> > From: "Leo (Sunpeng) Li" <sunpeng.li at amd.com>
> >
> > This ended up being different enough from v2 to warrant a new patchset.
> Per
> > Michel's suggestions, there have been various optimizations and cleanups.
> > Here's what's changed:
> >
> > * Cache DRM color management property IDs at pre-init,
> >     * instead of querying DRM each time we need to modify color
> properties.
> >
> > * Remove drmmode_update_cm_props().
> >     * Update color properties in drmmode_output_get_property() instead.
> >     * This also makes old calls to update_cm_props redundant.
> >
> > * Get rid of fake CRTCs.
> >     * Previously, we were allocating a fake CRTC to configure color
> props on
> >       outputs that don't have a CRTC.
> >     * Instead, rr_configure_and_change_cm_property() can be easily
> modified to
> >       accept NULL CRTCs.
> >
> > * Drop patches to persist color properties across DPMS events.
> >     * Kernel driver should be patched instead:
> >
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2018-May/022744.html
> >     * Color props including legacy gamma now persist across crtc dpms.
> >     * Non-legacy props now persist across output dpms and hotplug, as
> long
> >       as the same CRTC remains attached to that output.
> >
> > And some smaller improvements:
> >
> > * Change CTM to be 32-bit format instead of 16-bit.
> >     * This requires clients to ensure that each 32-bit element is padded
> to be
> >       long-sized, since libXrandr parses 32-bit format as long-typed.
> >
> > * Optimized color management init during CRTC init.
> >     * Query DRM once for the list of properties, instead of twice.
>
> Sounds good. I'll be going through the patches in detail from now on,
> but I don't know yet when I'll be able to finish the review.
>
>
> Meanwhile, heads up on two issues I discovered while smoke-testing the
> series (which are sort of related, but occur even without this series):
>
>
> Running Xorg in depth 30[0] results in completely wrong colours
> (everything has a red tint) with current kernels. I think this is
> because DC now preserves the gamma LUT values, but xf86-video-amdgpu
> never sets them at depth 30, so the hardware is still using values for
> 24-bit RGB.
>
> Can you look into making xf86-video-amdgpu set the LUT values at depth
> 30 as well? Ideally in a way which doesn't require all patches in this
> series, so that it could be backported for a 18.0.2 point release if
> necessary. (Similarly for skipping drmmode_cursor_gamma when the kernel
> supports the new colour management properties, to fix
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/106578)
>
>
> Trying to run Xorg in depth 16 or 8[0] results in failure to set any mode:
>
> [    56.138] (EE) AMDGPU(0): failed to set mode: Invalid argument
> [    56.138] (WW) AMDGPU(0): Failed to set mode on CRTC 0
> [    56.172] (EE) AMDGPU(0): Failed to enable any CRTC
>
> Works fine with amdgpu.dc=0. This has been broken at least since the
> 4.16 development cycle.
>
>
> [0] You can change Xorg's colour depth either via -depth on its command
> line, or via the xorg.conf screen section:
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         DefaultDepth 30 # or 16 or 8
> EndSection
>
>
> --
> Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
> Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer
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