[PATCH] radeon: Allow disabling UVD

[Christian König]

Am 07.05.2013 23:13, schrieb Parag Warudkar:
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Christian König <deathsimple at vodafone.de> wrote:
>
>> The patch shouldn't be necessary because just removing the firmware should
>> have pretty much the same effect.
> Soon distros will ship the UVD firmware by default and then users will
> need to manually remove it and then do the same with every update.
> Besides, I just discovered that when UVD is enabled suspend resume
> breaks  - tried 3 times with SUMO_uvd loaded - machine suspends but
> resumes instantly.
> Without SUMO_uvd.bin - suspends fine and only wakes up when I want it to.

Hui? Wait a second, the firmware doesn't work but still causes an 
instant resume on suspend? Very strange.

>> The only case where we indeed seems to have a problem are Macs with
>> integrated cards, and we can always just blacklist those if the problem
>> doesn't seems to be solvable.
> I happen to have the problematic card in my iMac - I'd be glad to
> provide any info or try any patches. Just let me know.
> For now I will remove the firmware - I reboot /suspend-resume often
> and it is a bit annoying to have to go through those mdelays only to
> fail.

Yeah, perfectly understandable.

My best guess is that it has something todo with a different clock 
routing on Macs, but without access to the hardware (or precise 
documentation from Apple what the heck they did different) I don't 
really see a chance to solve that problem.

If you want to hack a bit on it you could try commenting out the calls 
to "radeon_set_uvd_clocks" in radeon_uvd.c. That should give you the 
default clocks of 100Mhz, not enough for usable decoding, but on SUMO 
based UVD blocks a very failsafe default.

Whatever it is, please send me an output of lspci, so I can blacklist 
the offending chip.

Christian.

> Thanks,
> Parag
>