Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: ignore bios output config if not all outputs are on

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On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:27:08AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 22:08:12 +0100
> Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 12:33:01PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > On Tue,  4 Mar 2014 21:08:42 +0100
> > > Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Both Ville and QA rather immediately complained that with the new
> > > > initial_config logic from Jesse not all outputs get enabled. Since the
> > > > fbdev emulation pretty much tries to always enable as many outputs as
> > > > possible (it even has hotplug handling and all that) fall back if more
> > > > outputs could have been enabled.
> > > > 
> > > > v2: Fix up my confusion about what enabled means - it's passed from
> > > > the fbdev helper, we need to check for a non-zero connector->encoder
> > > > link. Spotted by Ville.
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75552
> > > > Tested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
> > > > index df00e6b01f0d..c1a20c3babde 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
> > > > @@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ static bool intel_fb_initial_config(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
> > > >  	int i, j;
> > > >  	bool *save_enabled;
> > > >  	bool fallback = true;
> > > > +	int num_connectors_enabled = 0;
> > > > +	int num_connectors_detected = 0;
> > > >  
> > > >  	/*
> > > >  	 * If the user specified any force options, just bail here
> > > > @@ -324,6 +326,10 @@ static bool intel_fb_initial_config(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
> > > >  
> > > >  		fb_conn = fb_helper->connector_info[i];
> > > >  		connector = fb_conn->connector;
> > > > +
> > > > +		if (connector->status == connector_status_connected)
> > > > +			num_connectors_detected++;
> > > > +
> > > >  		if (!enabled[i]) {
> > > >  			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("connector %d not enabled, skipping\n",
> > > >  				      connector->base.id);
> > > > @@ -338,6 +344,8 @@ static bool intel_fb_initial_config(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
> > > >  			continue;
> > > >  		}
> > > >  
> > > > +		num_connectors_enabled++;
> > > > +
> > > >  		new_crtc = intel_fb_helper_crtc(fb_helper, encoder->crtc);
> > > >  
> > > >  		/*
> > > > @@ -393,6 +401,15 @@ static bool intel_fb_initial_config(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
> > > >  		fallback = false;
> > > >  	}
> > > >  
> > > > +	/*
> > > > +	 * If the BIOS didn't enable everything it could, fall back to have the
> > > > +	 * same user experiencing of lighting up as much as possible like the
> > > > +	 * fbdev helper library.
> > > > +	 */
> > > > +	if (num_connectors_enabled != num_connectors_detected &&
> > > > +	    num_connectors_enabled < INTEL_INFO(dev)->num_pipes)
> > > > +		fallback = true;
> > > 
> > > I think we need a debug message in here so people can figure out why
> > > their fastboot failed with this patch included.  E.g. "some connected
> > > outputs weren't enabled, falling back to old behavior".
> > > 
> > > Also note that this will probably always happen in certain configs, and
> > > the fallback behavior won't be any better since we may not be able to
> > > light up everything that's attached.
> > 
> > Excellent suggestion, I've gone ahead and added debug output for all cases
> > where we fall back.
> > > 
> > > With those caveats:
> > > Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thinking about this some more last night, I think it would be better to
> count the pipes and the connectors, and bail out if we have detected
> connectors available but not enabled and some free pipes.  That would
> prevent unnecessary fastboot breakage I think.

I do take pipes into account and only bail out if we'd have a free one.
I don't see what more we could do (beside trying to keep the crtcs for the
already enabled connectors)?
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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