Caching of EDID for X server to decrease startup time of X server

[Thierry Reding]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 02:13:43PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 03:01:49PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > Russell and Sascha were discussing this kind of caching in the i.MX
> > driver recently. Adding both for visibility. Also not trimming the quote
> > in case they don't have the original.
> > 
> > It sounds like this could be useful to have in the core. As I understand
> > it, hotplug detection is pretty well specified for more modern display
> > interfaces (like HDMI and DisplayPort), so I think caching of this sort
> > could work for those. However, I think some older interfaces such as VGA
> > (or perhaps even DVI as well) don't have reliable hotplug detection and
> > hence would need to be able to force reading the EDID.
> > 
> > Still, perhaps a connector flag could be introduced to enable caching on
> > a per-connector basis, and then we should be able to deal with this in
> > the DRM core, rather than have per-driver quirks.
> 
> We've shied away from EDID caching precisely because HPD on Intel is
> notoriously unreliable. The last suggestion no one followed up with was
> a short term EDID cache.

That's why I think a per-connector flag would be good. It would allow
this caching to be enabled only where it's been confirmed to be safe.

I'd expect that HPD works well for HDMI and DisplayPort even on Intel.

Thierry
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