On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 02:39:47PM +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 07:27:57PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 05:34:29PM +0530, Sonika Jindal wrote:
> > > Adding this for SKL onwards.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sonika Jindal <sonika.jindal@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I think this is the critical piece really, and I'd like to roll it out for
> > all platforms. git has the code for all the old ones, so no big deal to
> > digg that out. Also we need your fix for the interrupt handling first ofc,
> > otherwise this won't work.
> >
> > Then we can apply this and give it some good testing before we start
> > relying on it with caching hdmi probe status. I know this means that
> > things will be slower, but I've been burned a bit too much the last few
> > times we've tried this. And I really think we need the most amount of
> > testing we can get (hence rolling this out for all platforms). If your
> > hpd irq handling bugfix is indeed the bug that will be confirmed quickly,
> > otherwise it means back to debugging.
>
> "things will be slower" is a bit of an understatement, sadly.
> On machines with no external display connected (the typical usecase for
> any device with an eDP, such as a laptop, tablet, etc.), the approach to
> repeat live status reads until buggy displays can be bothered to reply
> makes us spend twice as long as needed on resume.
Also this is causing stall during runtime hotplug. ~90ms stall causes
3-4 frames to be dropped in 24Hz movie. Even a single frame dropped
during movie playback is enough to be noticed.
This coupled with
commit f8d03ea0053b23de42c828d559016eabe0b91523
Author: Gary Wang <gary.c.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Dec 23 16:11:35 2015 +0800
drm/i915: increase the tries for HDMI hotplug live status checking
which purports to "fix" live status for bdw+.
Afaict using live status is as broken as we told you it would be from
earlier experience.
-Chris
--
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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