Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Update virtual PCH in single function

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On Wed, 30 May 2018, Colin Xu <Colin.Xu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/28/2018 09:42 PM, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 May 2018, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 May 2018, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 29 May 2018, colin.xu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> From: Colin Xu <colin.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> The existing way to update virtual PCH will return wrong PCH type
>>>>> in case the host doesn't have PCH:
>>>>>    - intel_virt_detect_pch returns guessed PCH id 0
>>>>>    - id 0 maps to PCH_NOP. >> should be PCH_NONE.
>>>>> Since PCH_NONE and PCH_NOP are different types, mixing them up
>>>>> will break vbt initialization logic.
>>>>>
>>>>> In addition, to add new none/nop PCH override for a specific
>>>>> platform, branching need to be added to intel_virt_detect_pch(),
>>>>> intel_pch_type() and the caller since none/nop PCH is not always
>>>>> mapping to the same predefined PCH id.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch merges the virtual PCH update/sanity check logic into
>>>>> single function intel_virt_update_pch(), which still keeps using
>>>>> existing intel_pch_type() to do the sanity check, while making it
>>>>> clean to override virtual PCH id for a specific platform for future
>>>>> platform enablement.
>>>> Please keep the assignment out of intel_virt_{detect,update}_pch like. I
>>>> think the patch here is unnecessarily complicated.
>>> To elaborate, intel_pch_type() should *always* be able to map pch id to
>>> pch type. There should not be combinations that aren't covered by
>>> that. If the sanity checks there need to accept Broxton as well, perhaps
>>> pass a parameter to indicate virtualization, and accept certain pch ids
>>> for Broxton as well.
>>>
>>> If you're faking a pch for Broxton, I don't think there's a case where
>>> pch id should be 0 and pch type should be something else. Either both
>>> are zero, or both are non-zero.
>> -ENOCOFFEE in the morning. Is the fix you're looking for simply:
>
> Yes this is the most simply way.
> The reason I didn't craft the patch like this in the beginning is that
> I'm not sure after your refactoring patch, if the case exists that pch
> id 0 maps to type either nop or none.
> As you said there is no such case, the simply change should work well.
> Will you made the change sometime or I need update my patch set?

I was trying to look at which part of my refactoring broke this, but it
seems to me it was already setting pch_type to PCH_NOP before that.

Do you have a bisect result?

BR,
Jani.



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