On Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 at 00:03, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why would anyone want to run at 8bpc when they have a panel with > > higher color depth? So I think someone is going to be doing that > > modeset eventually anyway. > > We used to do something similar, but then got piles of bug reports > about the displays running at 30Hz rather than 60 so we changed it to > 8. It's hard to say what a user will prefer. "max bpc" is a maximum, ie. it shouldn't make a modeset fail, the kernel should automatically reduce the bpc if the link bandwidth is insufficient. So that sounds like there's an amdgpu bug here?
