[gma500] Fix screen blackouts

Guillaume Clément gclement at baobob.org
Fri Apr 20 15:12:08 PDT 2012


Hello,

Since linux-3.3 I have been experiencing screen "blackouts" with the 
gma500_gfx driver. My laptop display would turn off and on again frequently.

After activating the drm.debug=255 kernel option, the logs showed this during 
the blackout : 

[  166.940676] [drm:psb_intel_sdvo_read_response], SDVOB: R: (Target not 
specified)... failed


It appears that, for some reason, psb_intel_sdvo_read_reponse fails with 
status "Target not specified" during the polling for outputs. The driver then 
assumes the DPMS output is to be turned off and does so. Then the DPMS display 
is turned on again at the next poll.

The staging driver (which worked with my card) called psb_intel_sdvo_read_byte 
until the status is successful. Now the driver fails if one of the returned 
status is neither pending nor success.

It looks my card can return "target not specified" instead of pending. By 
considering "target not specified" like pending and waiting for another byte, 
everything works fine again.




To sum things up : 

Some Poulsbo cards seem to incorrectly report 
SDVO_CMD_STATUS_TARGET_NOT_SPECIFIED instead of SDVO_CMD_STATUS_PENDING which 
causes the display to be turned off.

Signed-by: Guillaume Clement <gclement at baobob.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan at linux.intel.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c
index 36330ca..b3858bc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c
@@ -498,7 +498,9 @@ static bool psb_intel_sdvo_read_response(struct 
psb_intel_sdvo *psb_intel_sdvo,
                                  &status))
                goto log_fail;
 
-       while (status == SDVO_CMD_STATUS_PENDING && retry--) {
+       while ((status == SDVO_CMD_STATUS_PENDING
+               || status == SDVO_CMD_STATUS_TARGET_NOT_SPECIFIED)
+               && retry--) {
                udelay(15);
                if (!psb_intel_sdvo_read_byte(psb_intel_sdvo,
                                          SDVO_I2C_CMD_STATUS,





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