drm/ast something ate high-res modes (5.3->5.6 regression)

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 08.07.20 um 12:05 schrieb Ilpo Järvinen:
> Hi,
> 
> After upgrading kernel from 5.3 series to 5.6.16 something seems to 
> prevent me from achieving high resolutions with the ast driver.

Thanks for reporting. It's not a bug, but a side effect of atomic
modesetting.

During pageflips, the old code used to kick out the currently displayed
framebuffer and then load in the new one. If that failed, the display
went garbage.

In v5.6-rc1, we merged atomic modesetting for ast. This means that
screen updates are more reliable, but we have to over-commit resources.
Specifically, we have to reserve space for two buffers in video memory
while a pageflip happens. 1920x1200 at 32 are ~9MiB of framebuffer memory.
If your device has 16 MiB of VRAM, there's no space left for the second
framebuffer. Hence, the resolution is no longer supported.

On the positive side, you can now use Wayland compositors with ast.
Atomic modesetting adds the necessary interfaces.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> With 5.6.16:
> 
> $ xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 2048
> VGA-1 connected primary 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
>    1600x1200     60.00* 
>    1680x1050     59.95  
>    1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
>    1440x900      59.89  
>    1280x800      59.81  
>    1024x768      75.03    60.00  
>    800x600       75.00    60.32  
>    640x480       75.00    59.94  
>    1920x1200_60.0  59.95  
> 
> If I try to change to that manually added high-res mode, I get:
> xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
> 
> With 5.3 series I've this:
> 
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 2048
> VGA-1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
>    1920x1200     59.95*+
>    1600x1200     60.00  
>    1680x1050     59.95  
>    1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
>    1440x900      59.89  
>    1280x800      59.81  
>    1024x768      75.03    60.00  
>    800x600       75.00    60.32  
>    640x480       75.00    59.94  
>    1920x1200_60.0  59.95  
> 
> As I've had issues in getting EDID reliably from the monitor, I provide it 
> on kernel command-line (the one dumped from the monitor I use). In 
> addition, I've another workaround for past issues related to EDID which 
> always adds that 1920x1200_60.0 mode but now I cannot use even it to
> enter a high-res mode.
> 
> If you need some additional info or want me to test a patch, just let me 
> know (but some delay is expected in testing patches). Thanks.
> 
> 

-- 
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
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