[PATCH v1 05/35] drm/connector: Add TV standard property

[Maxime Ripard]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 05:01:38PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
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> 
> Den 18.08.2022 01.23, skrev Noralf Trønnes:
> > 
> > 
> > Den 17.08.2022 15.11, skrev Noralf Trønnes:
> >>
> >>
> >> Den 17.08.2022 13.46, skrev Maxime Ripard:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 09:35:24PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> >>>> Den 16.08.2022 11.49, skrev Maxime Ripard:
> >>>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:42:20AM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> >>>>>> Den 16.08.2022 10.26, skrev Maxime Ripard:
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 02:44:56PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Den 29.07.2022 18.34, skrev Maxime Ripard:
> >>>>>>>>> The TV mode property has been around for a while now to select and get the
> >>>>>>>>> current TV mode output on an analog TV connector.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Despite that property name being generic, its content isn't and has been
> >>>>>>>>> driver-specific which makes it hard to build any generic behaviour on top
> >>>>>>>>> of it, both in kernel and user-space.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Let's create a new bitmask tv norm property, that can contain any of the
> >>>>>>>>> analog TV standards currently supported by kernel drivers. Each driver can
> >>>>>>>>> then pass in a bitmask of the modes it supports.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> We'll then be able to phase out the older tv mode property.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>
> >>>>>>>>>
> > 
> >>>> How do you test the property? I've used modetest but I can only change
> >>>> to a tv.mode that matches the current display mode. I can't switch from
> >>>> ntsc to pal for instance.
> >>>
> >>> Yep, if you want to change from PAL to NTSC, it will require a new mode.
> >>>
> >>
> >> So userspace has to check tv.mode first and then create a display mode
> >> the driver will accept if switching to a different display mode is
> >> necessary? In other words, userspace can't discover from the kernel
> >> which display modes a certain tv.mode/norm provides before it is
> >> selected? If so, maybe libdrm should have some function(s) to deal with
> >> switching between modes that require a different display mode since
> >> knowledge about which display modes a tv.mode supports is needed before
> >> hand.
> >>
> > 
> > I haven't used vc4 on Pi4 in mainline before and have finally gotten it
> > to work.
> > 
> > I see that the connector reports 2 modes that together fit all tv.norms
> > so userspace doesn't have to contruct a display mode, but it does need
> > to know which display mode belongs to a certain tv.norm.
> > 
> > When I try to use modetest I'm unable to set a mode:
> > 
> > pi at pi4t:~ $ modetest -M vc4 -s 45:720x480i
> > setting mode 720x480i-29.97Hz on connectors 45, crtc 68
> > failed to set mode: Function not implemented
> > 
> > The errno is misleading, modetest does a drmModeDirtyFB before checking
> > the error returned by drmModeSetCrtc.
> > 
> > Setting the property succeeds, but the modeset still fails:
> > 
> > pi at pi4t:~ $ modetest -M vc4 -s 45:720x480i -w 45:"tv norm":2
> > setting mode 720x480i-29.97Hz on connectors 45, crtc 68
> > failed to set mode: Function not implemented
> > 
> > pi at pi4t:~ $ modetest -M vc4 -c
> >         37 tv norm:
> >                 flags: bitmask
> >                 values: NTSC-443=0x1 NTSC-J=0x2 NTSC-M=0x4 PAL-B=0x10
> > PAL-M=0x200 PAL-N=0x400 SECAM-B=0x2000
> >                 value: 2
> > 
> > Here's the log, can you see if there's anything obvious in there:
> > https://gist.github.com/notro/a079498bf6b64327105752b2bafa8858
> > 
> 
> I'm one step closer as I now have fbcon working, I had forgotten to add
> enable_tvout=1 and I had disable_fw_kms_setup=1 which disables the
> video= mode on the kernel commandline.
> 
> modetest still fails though, after alot of printk sprinkling, I've
> tracked it down to the drm_mode_equal test in
> drm_atomic_helper_connector_tv_check(). The aspect ratios differ:
> 
> [   61.336295] drm_atomic_helper_connector_tv_check:
> mode->picture_aspect_ratio=1
> [   61.336301] drm_atomic_helper_connector_tv_check:
> &crtc_state->mode->picture_aspect_ratio=0

I haven't seen this when testing, but I'll have a look, thanks!
Maxime
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