Re: [PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/hdmi: Ignore DP++ TMDS clock limit for native HDMI ports

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On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 05:54:03PM +0200, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Lots of machines these days seem to have a crappy type1 DP dual
> mode adaptor chip slapped onto the motherboard. Based on the
> DP dual mode spec we currently limit those to 165MHz max TMDS
> clock.
> 
> Windows OTOH ignores DP dual mode adaptors when the VBT
> indicates that the port is not actually DP++, so we can
> perhaps assume that the vendors did intend that the 165MHz
> clock limit doesn't apply here. Though it would be much
> nicer if they actually declared an explicit limit through
> VBT, but that doesn't seem to be happening either.
> 
> So in order to match Windows behaviour let's ignore the
> DP dual mode adaptor's TMDS clock limit for ports that
> don't look like DP++ in VBT.
> 
> Unfortunately many older VBTs misdelcare their DP++ ports
> as just HDMI (eg. ILK Dell Latitude E5410) or DP (eg. SNB
> Lenovo ThinkPad X220). So we can't really do this universally
> without risking black screens. I suppose a sensible cutoff
> is HSW+ since that's when 4k became a thing and one might
> assume that the machines have been tested to work with higher
> TMDS clock rates.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdmi.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdmi.c
> index 3b5b9e7b05b7..9f0557d9e9a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdmi.c
> @@ -2359,6 +2359,14 @@ intel_hdmi_dp_dual_mode_detect(struct drm_connector *connector, bool has_edid)
>  		    "DP dual mode adaptor (%s) detected (max TMDS clock: %d kHz)\n",
>  		    drm_dp_get_dual_mode_type_name(type),
>  		    hdmi->dp_dual_mode.max_tmds_clock);
> +
> +	/* Older VBTs are often buggy and can't be trusted :( Play it safe. */
> +	if ((DISPLAY_VER(dev_priv) >= 8 || IS_BROADWELL(dev_priv)) &&

As stated in the commit message I actually meant to say IS_HASWELL
here, not IS_BROADWELL.

> +	    !intel_bios_is_port_dp_dual_mode(dev_priv, port)) {
> +		drm_dbg_kms(&dev_priv->drm,
> +			    "Ignoring DP dual mode adaptor max TMDS clock for native HDMI port\n");
> +		hdmi->dp_dual_mode.max_tmds_clock = 0;
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static bool
> -- 
> 2.32.0

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel



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