Hello!
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I have 2 machines with Comet Lake CPUs on Tiger Lake PCH (500 series of Intel chipsets).
For that configuration there was a patch for adding support for Tiger Lake PCH with CometLake CPU in 2021 - https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/412664/
This patch made possible correct detection of such chipset and cpu configuration for i915 kernel module. Without it there was no output to any display (HDMI/DP/DVI, even VGA).
But this patch doesn't touch intel_virt_detect_pch method, when you passthrough iGPU to a virtual machine.
So, virtual PCH incorrectly detects as Cannon Lake and you have no output to a physical display with i915 driver:
[ 2.933139] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_virt_detect_pch [i915]] Assuming PCH ID a300[ 2.933308] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_pch_type [i915]] Found Cannon Lake PCH (CNP)
The bug is on line 173 in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/soc/intel_pch.c in method intel_virt_detect_pch:
else if (IS_TIGERLAKE(dev_priv) || IS_ROCKETLAKE(dev_priv))
id = INTEL_PCH_TGP_DEVICE_ID_TYPE;
It must be:
else if (IS_TIGERLAKE(dev_priv) || IS_ROCKETLAKE(dev_priv) || IS_GEN9_BC(dev_priv))
id = INTEL_PCH_TGP_DEVICE_ID_TYPE;
After that small change you get correct detection of PCH and have output to a physical display in VM with passthrough iGPU:
[ 16.139809] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_virt_detect_pch [i915]] Assuming PCH ID a080[ 16.261151] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_pch_type [i915]] Found Tiger Lake LP PCH
All kernel versions in any distro since 2021 are affected by this small bug.
The patch for i915 module of the actual kernel version is in attachment.
Best regards, Andrey Toloknev
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