Re: [PATCH 00/12] drm/i915/bios: vbt child device rework

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On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:03:30PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>I see the parsing and caching of child device data into
>>i915->vbt.ddi_port_info[] slightly problematic. We keep adding data to
>>it, and it just duplicates information. Start moving towards a single
>>point of truth, and getting the information directly from the child
>>device data.
>>
>>One obstacle has been that init_vbt_missing_defaults() only initializes
>>ddi_port_info, without child devices. As the same problem arose in a
>>patch from Lucas, I thought it was time to start creating fake child
>>devices to unify the code.
>>
>>There are a bunch of cleanups and refactoring here. Patches 1-5 are
>>enough to fix Lucas' patch I think. Patch 10 does what Lucas was after,
>>just in a different way and as a byproduct of something else. The later
>
> humn... but we'd still need the patches in that series to cleanup
> the calls to intel_ddi_init() from intel_display.c. Or did I miss
> anything?

Nah, my bad. This makes it possible to do what you do there.

BR,
Jani.

>
> I did a quick scan through the patches and left a few comments. Overall
> it looks good to me, but I need to dedicate a little more time to give a
> proper r-b. I will do soon if no one beats me to it.
>
>
> thanks
> Lucas De Marchi
>
>>patches in the series are more to show the direction, and seek
>>validation for that direction.
>>
>>Naming is also a question mark. All of these are a bit questionable:
>>intel_bios_encoder_data, devdata, intel_bios_encoder_supports_*, etc.
>>
>>BR,
>>Jani.
>>
>>
>>[1] http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210213190511.1017088-2-lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>>Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>Jani Nikula (12):
>>  drm/i915/bios: mass convert dev_priv to i915
>>  drm/i915/bios: store bdb version in i915
>>  drm/i915/bios: limit default outputs by platform on missing VBT
>>  drm/i915/bios: limit default outputs to ports A through F
>>  drm/i915/bios: create fake child devices on missing VBT
>>  drm/i915/bios: rename display_device_data to intel_bios_encoder_data
>>  drm/i915/bios: add i915 backpointer to intel_bios_encoder_data
>>  drm/i915/vbt: add helper functions to check output support
>>  drm/i915/bios: save a higher level pointer in ddi_vbt_port_info[]
>>  drm/i915/bios: start using the intel_bios_encoder_data directly
>>  drm/i915/bios: start using intel_bios_encoder_data for Type-C USB and
>>    TBT
>>  drm/i915/bios: add intel_bios_encoder_data to encoder, use for iboost
>>
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bios.c     | 1021 +++++++++--------
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bios.h     |   17 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_ddi.c      |   28 +-
>> .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_types.h    |    3 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h               |    9 +-
>> 5 files changed, 584 insertions(+), 494 deletions(-)
>>
>>-- 
>>2.20.1
>>

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
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