[PATCH] drm/edid: Don't send non-zero YQ in AVI infoframe for HDMI 1.x sinks

[Eric Anholt]

Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 02:21:08PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:17:28PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> >> Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
>> >> >
>> >> > Apparently some sinks look at the YQ bits even when receiving RGB,
>> >> > and they get somehow confused when they see a non-zero YQ value.
>> >> > So we can't just blindly follow CEA-861-F and set YQ to match the
>> >> > RGB range.
>> >> >
>> >> > Unfortunately there is no good way to tell whether the sink
>> >> > designer claims to have read CEA-861-F. The CEA extension block
>> >> > revision number has generally been stuck at 3 since forever,
>> >> > and even a very recently manufactured sink might be based on
>> >> > an old design so the manufacturing date doesn't seem like
>> >> > something we can use. In lieu of better information let's
>> >> > follow CEA-861-F only for HDMI 2.0 sinks, since HDMI 2.0 is
>> >> > based on CEA-861-F. For HDMI 1.x sinks we'll always set YQ=0.
>> >> >
>> >> > The alternative would of course be to always set YQ=0. And if
>> >> > we ever encounter a HDMI 2.0+ sink with this bug that's what
>> >> > we'll probably have to do.
>> >> 
>> >> Should vc4 be doing anything special for HDMI2 sinks, if it's an HDMI1.4
>> >> source?
>> >
>> > As long as you stick to < 340 MHz modes you shouldn't have to do
>> > anything. For >=340 MHz you'd need to use some new HDMI 2.0 features.
>> >
>> > Looks like vc4 crtc .mode_valid() doesn't do much. I presume it's up
>> > to bridges/encoders to filter out most things that aren't supported?
>> 
>> I had a patch for that at
>> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/30680/ -- fedora folks had run
>> into trouble with 4k monitors.
>
> Ack on the clock limiting patch, silly that it's stuck. No idea about CEC,
> better for Hans/Boris I guess.

Thanks!
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