Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Disable primary plane if we fail to reconstruct BIOS fb

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:53:55PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:48:32AM -0800, Matt Roper wrote:
> > If we fail to reconstruct the BIOS fb (e.g., because the FB is too
> > large), we'll be left with plane state that indicates the primary plane
> > is visible yet has a NULL fb.  This mismatch causes problems later on
> > (e.g., for the watermark code).  Since we've failed to reconstruct the
> > BIOS FB, the best solution is to just disable the primary plane and
> > pretend the BIOS never had it enabled.
> > 
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are a bunch of bugzillas open about this as it is a regression
> from about 3.2.
> -Chris
> 

Do you happen to know any of the bug ID's off the top of your head (or
keywords to look for)?  I skimmed through the bug list, but the only one
that jumped out at me as possibly related is

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91751
("Display still active even though primary plane is disabled and kills
the GPU")

Thanks!


Matt


> -- 
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

-- 
Matt Roper
Graphics Software Engineer
IoTG Platform Enabling & Development
Intel Corporation
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