On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 07:00, Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 07:48:26PM +1000, David Airlie wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:18 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:48:39PM -0700, Manasi Navare wrote: > > > > In case of tiled displays, if we hotplug just one connector, > > > > fbcon currently just selects the preferred mode and if it is > > > > tiled mode then that becomes a problem if rest of the tiles are > > > > not present. > > > > So in the fbdev driver on hotplug when we probe the client modeset, > > > > we we dont find all the connectors for all tiles, then on a connector > > > > with one tile, just fallback to the first available non tiled mode > > > > to display over a single connector. > > > > > > > > Suggested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Suggested-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Signed-off-by: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Hm, should we mayb have a slight timeout first to wait for the 2nd > > > connector? Otherwise lots of flickering going on when plugging in one of > > > these screens ... > > > > Not really, > > > > There are 3 scenarios with the multi-cable tiled monitors. and > > non-resizeable fbdev. > > > > a) it's plugged in at boot. both cables are detected, fbdev gets a > > full tiled mode. > > Yes this works as expected > > > b) it's not plugged in at boot, the user starts plugging it in, fbdev > > was inited via the panel or another monitor. fbdev won't resize. > > c) it's half plugged in at boot, then you get a non-tiled mode, and > > fbdev can't resize to tiled anyways. > > In b and c, when its booted with only 1 cable connected and/or hotplugged only > one cable after boot, I fallback to fisrt available non tiled mode, does that sound good? > > > > > Also plugging in one of these multi-cable monitors piecemeal is going > > to take multiple seconds for the user to do physical cable plugging. > > So still good with ignoring the second hotplug completely? > However i donno where in the fb helper to stop passing the modeset down > after the drm_fb_helper_hotplug_event() I don't think you can ignore it completely. I think you just have to make the mode picking logic pick the right answer somehow. So you can tell if width/height are going to be lower than the tiled mode size, and in that case just don't enable the secondary tile. Dave. _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
