Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: add new AMD ACPI header and update relevant code

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於 五,2012-07-27 於 23:32 +0800,joeyli 提到:
> 於 五,2012-07-27 於 09:21 -0400,Alex Deucher 提到:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:46 AM, joeyli <jlee@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > + * flags
> > > + * bits 1:0:
> > > + * 0 - Notify(VGA, 0x81) is not used for notification
> > > + * 1 - Notify(VGA, 0x81) is used for notification
> > >
> > > Per the above flags, when we detect bit set to 1, means 0x81 used for radeon-acpi
> > > to be a general notification event. My question is: what's the event number for
> > > ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_PROBE on this AMD/ATI machine when 0x81 not available for acpi/video?
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > +/* ARG0: ATIF_FUNCTION_GET_SYSTEM_PARAMETERS
> > + * ARG1: none
> > + * OUTPUT:
> > + * WORD  - structure size in bytes (includes size field)
> > + * DWORD - valid flags mask
> > + * DWORD - flags
> > + *
> > + * OR
> > + *
> > + * WORD  - structure size in bytes (includes size field)
> > + * DWORD - valid flags mask
> > + * DWORD - flags
> > + * BYTE  - notify command code
> > + *
> > + * flags
> > + * bits 1:0:
> > + * 0 - Notify(VGA, 0x81) is not used for notification
> > + * 1 - Notify(VGA, 0x81) is used for notification
> > + * 2 - Notify(VGA, n) is used for notification where
> > + * n (0xd0-0xd9) is specified in notify command code.
> > + * bit 2:
> > + * 1 - lid changes not reported though int10
> > + */
> > 
> > if bits 1:0 == 0, there is no notify event for radeon.  When bits 1:0
> > == 1, it uses 0x81; when bits 1:0 == 2 it uses the event number
> > specified in the following byte (notify command code) which would be
> > something in the 0xd0-0xd9 range.
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> Did you mean every time we received 0x81 event in kernel module, we need
> access GET_SYSTEM_PARAMETERS to get the flags for distinguish between
> ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_PROBE?
> 
> Or just need access ONE time when system boot?
> 
> 
> I have a machine the GET_SYSTEM_PARAMETERS looks like this:
> 
> Method (AF01, 0, NotSerialized)                 /* ATIF_FUNCTION_GET_SYSTEM_PARAMETERS 0x1 */
> {
>     CreateWordField (ATIB, Zero, SSZE)
>     CreateDWordField (ATIB, 0x02, VMSK)
>     CreateDWordField (ATIB, 0x06, FLGS)         /* flags bits 1:0 */
>     Store (0x0A, SSZE)		/* structure SIZE fixed */
>     Store (0x03, VMSK)		/* valid flags mask fixed to 0x03 */
>     Store (One, FLGS)		/* FLAGS always set to 1 */
>     Return (ATIB)
> }
> 
> Looks like just need access ONE time when system boot because those
> return value of AF01 fixed in DSDT.
> 
> On this machine doesn't support probe event, I didn't see any event
> issued when I plug D-Sub. Does that means those kind of ATI/AMD machines
> do NOT support probe notify?
> 
> If YES, then we can just direct disable acpi/video driver by radeon-acpi
					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> when we detected FLAGS is 1.
> 

I mean disable the ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_PROBE related code in acpi/video
driver.


Thanks
Joey Lee

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