SOC15 DC support warning

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On 07/03/2018 12:50 PM, Bridgman, John wrote:
> I have seen a couple of reports that booting Raven desktop parts 
> requires disabling DC, although I'm not sure if that actually makes 
> sense (I didn't think we implemented non-DC display paths for Vega/Raven).
> 
> 
> Might be specific to people with a dGPU plugged in, I guess ?

Yup, there's no DCE driver for vg10/rv1.

Also I like how y'all bike shedded my patch into obsolescence.  :-). 
I'm ok with cleaner/simpler code.

Dropping DRM_AMD_DC might break things for pre-vega users would prefer 
DCE over DC/display (if they exist) though no?

Tom

> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of 
> Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* July 3, 2018 12:45 PM
> *To:* Michel Dänzer
> *Cc:* StDenis, Tom; Kuehling, Felix; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> *Subject:* Re: SOC15 DC support warning
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>> On 2018-07-03 06:13 PM, Felix Kuehling wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-03 10:19 AM, Tom St Denis wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> This block
>>>>
>>>> #if defined(CONFIG_DRM_AMD_DC)
>>>>         else if (amdgpu_device_has_dc_support(adev))
>>>>             amdgpu_device_ip_block_add(adev, &dm_ip_block);
>>>> #else
>>>> #    warning "Enable CONFIG_DRM_AMD_DC for display support on SOC15."
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> in soc15_set_ip_blocks() should probably be ported to a runtime
>>>> drm_warn() no?  This means a kernel with no DC support will just
>>>> silently fail to light up on SOC15.
>>>>
>>>> I can write a patch for this if nobody objects.
>>>
>>> Maybe do both. So someone building a kernel without DC gets a warning as
>>> well as someone running it.
>>
>> Yep, we already do both for CONFIG_MTRR & CONFIG_X86_PAT.
>>
>> BTW, the build warning should also be guarded by #ifndef
>> CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST, per commit 31bb90f1cd084 "drm/amdgpu: shut up
>> #warning for compile testing".
>>
>>
>> OTOH, do we even need the capability to build the driver without DC anymore?
> 
> Yeah, we can probably go ahead and remove CONFIG_DRM_AMD_DC.
> 
> Alex
> 
>>
>>
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