Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: set panel orientation before drm_dev_register

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On 08/08, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/5/22 19:34, Simon Ser wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Have you seen [1] and [2]? CC'ing Sean and Hans, it seems like there's
> > a disagreement regarding probing early vs. setting the initial value to
> > UNKNOWN.
> 
> At least for the discussions I've been involved in so far
> (see the links in the originak email) it was possible to retreive
> the panel orientation before calling drm_dev_register() and IIRC some
> changes were merged (I've at least reviewed them) to add a new
> callback to the panel drivers to get the orientation from the panel
> driver before registering the connector fixing the ordering problem
> for those cases.
> 
> > If a driver doesn't fetch EDIDs before exposing them to user-space,
> > then there is an amount of time where the connectors are exposed as
> > CONNECTED but their EDID and mode list isn't properly set. But maybe
> > that's what the GETCONNECTOR IOCTLs is supposed to do: probe the
> > connector, fetch its EDID, return the proper mode list. So maybe
> > drivers shouldn't probe early and should let user-space request probes?
> > In which case we could create the panel orientation prop with "Normal",
> > and update it accordingly when probing.
> 
> I guess that if in some cases it really is not possible to get
> the orientation before calling drm_dev_register() then this is
> an acceptable solution, as long as the orientation gets set
> properly before the first GETCONNECTOR IOCTL finishes then
> userspace will never know the difference since it needs to do
> the GETCONNECTOR to enumerate the connectors properties anyways.
> 
> > At any rate, I've tested v2 on the Deck and it works properly.
> > 
> > Tested-by: Simon Ser <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm not aware of which patch's v2 you are talking about here, link ?

Hi Hans,

Here is v2: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/20220804161349.3561177-1-mwen@xxxxxxxxxx/

Anyway, let me cc'ing you all there.

Best Regards,

Melissa

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Simon
> > 
> > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/CAMavQKJUpYP8jo2JDGMYNBGtbPSSO7z9BAComm5JQoty=HPtJg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220530081910.3947168-1-hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> 

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