RE: [PATCH v5 6/9] drm/msm/dp: wait for hpd high before any sink interaction

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] drm/msm/dp: wait for hpd high before any sink
> interaction
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> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 8:54 AM Sankeerth Billakanti (QUIC)
> <quic_sbillaka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] drm/msm/dp: wait for hpd high before any
> > > sink interaction
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 4:27 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > Pushing hpd state checking into aux transactions looks like
> > > > > > the wrong direction. Also, as I said up above I am concerned
> > > > > > that even checking the GPIO won't work and we need some way to
> > > > > > ask the bridge if HPD is asserted or not and then fallback to
> > > > > > the GPIO method if the display phy/controller doesn't have
> > > > > > support to check HPD internally. Something on top of
> DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD?
> > > > >
> > > > > If we could somehow get the HPD status from the bridge in the
> > > > > panel driver it definitely would be convenient. It does feel
> > > > > like that's an improvement that could be done later, though.
> > > > > We've already landed a few instances of doing what's done here,
> > > > > like for
> > > > > parade-ps8640 and analogix_dp. I suspect designing a new
> > > > > mechanism might not be the most trivial.
> > > >
> > > > What is done in the bridge drivers is to wait for a fixed timeout
> > > > and assume aux is ready? Or is it something else? If there's just
> > > > a fixed timeout for the eDP case it sounds OK to do that for now
> > > > and we can fine tune it later to actually check HPD status
> > > > register before the panel tries to read EDID.
> > >
> > > Right. For the parade chip (which is only used for eDP as far as I
> > > know--never
> > > DP) waits for up to 200 ms. See ps8640_ensure_hpd().
> > >
> > > So I guess tl;dr to Sankeerth that it's OK for his patch to have the
> > > wait in the aux transfer function, but only for eDP. Other
> > > discussions here are about how we could make it better in future
> patches.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The aux transactions for external DP are initiated by the dp_display
> > driver only after the display is hot plugged to the connector. The
> > phy_init is necessary for the aux transactions to take place. So, for
> > the DP case, like Doug mentioned below, this patch is introducing an
> overhead of three register reads to detect hpd_high before performing aux
> transactions.
> > So, we felt this was okay to do for DP.
> 
> Personally I'm not that upset about the 3 register reads. The problem
> Stephen pointed out is bigger. It's possible that a DP cable is unplugged
> _just_ as we started an AUX transaction. In that case we'll have a big delay
> here when we don't actually need one.
> 
> 
Okay. Got it

> > On the other hand, for eDP, it is necessary to wait for panel ready through
> this hpd connect status.
> > Currently there is no way to know which type of connector it is in the
> dp_aux sub-module.
> >
> > However, as the discussion suggested, to have the wait only for eDP, I
> > am thinking to pass the connector_type information to aux sub-module
> > and register different aux_transfer functions for eDP and DP. The eDP
> > transfer function will wait for hpd_high and the DP transfer function will be
> same as the one before this patch.
> 
> Personally I wouldn't register two separate functions. You could just store a
> boolean in your structure and only wait for HPD if this is eDP. One extra "if"
> test doesn't seem like it justifies splitting off into two functions...
> 
> -Doug
Okay. I will make that change. Thank you.




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