Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "drm/i915: Add eDP intermediate frequencies for CHV"

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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 04:02:17PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 05:31:55PM +0530, Sivakumar Thulasimani wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On 8/12/2015 5:02 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:32:52AM +0530, Sivakumar Thulasimani wrote:
>> > >> From: "Thulasimani,Sivakumar" <sivakumar.thulasimani@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > >>
>> > >> This reverts
>> > >> commit fe51bfb95c996733150c44d21e1c9f4b6322a326.
>> > >> Author: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >> Date:   Thu Mar 12 17:10:38 2015 +0200
>> > >>
>> > >> CHV does not support intermediate frequencies so reverting the
>> > >> patch that added it in the first place
>> > > My docs still say it does. Is there some undocumented problem with the
>> > > PLL or is this just a marketing decision?
>> > I don't think so, i too have just one document that shows the phy values 
>> > for each of
>> > the link rates but have not found any where else to say it is supported .
>> 
>> Display cluster HAS says they're supported. And since the spreadsheet
>> has them all in green I assume someone actually figured that they ought
>> to work.
>> 
>> > Also this is not tested by anyone including us from product team so i 
>> > highly doubt
>> >   it will even work.
>> 
>> Well if no one has tested them I guess we shouldn't try to use them. Not
>> a big loss in any case I suppose.
>> 
>> So based on that reasoning I can give an ack for this patch:
>> Acked-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> > 
>> > regarding HBR2, it was supposed to land on a future stepping that never 
>> > happened
>> > so it is not supported at all.
>> 
>> Hmm. Display Cluster HAS listed it as a stretch goal for early steppings. Apart
>> from that there isn't much else to go by. Excepth the training pattern 3
>> support, but now that I look again the new bit for that has disappeared
>> from the DP register in the spec. Or maybe I was looking at the k0 spec
>> when I added it. It's still in the k0 spec but as you say that's been
>> nuked.
>> 
>> In light of this, I think dropping HBR2 is reasonable. HBR is anyway
>> enough for 4k@30 with 4 lanes, so it's not like we really need HBR2.
>> 
>> And could you also cook up a patch to kill the training pattern 3
>> support for CHV? Should be mostly a revert of my original patch that
>> added it, but you probably need to adjust the use_tps3 condition a bit
>> too.
>
> Can we please grill the people responsible for this docs mess some more?
>
> Patch itself is for Jani.

There was some suggestions from Ville [1] to patch 1/2 that I haven't
seen a reply to.

BR,
Jani.

[1] http://mid.gmane.org/20150812131205.GW5176@xxxxxxxxx



> -Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
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> http://blog.ffwll.ch

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