[PATCH v1 00/35] drm: Analog TV Improvements

[Noralf Trønnes]

Den 29.07.2022 18.34, skrev Maxime Ripard:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a series aiming at improving the command line named modes support,
> and more importantly how we deal with all the analog TV variants.
> 
> The named modes support were initially introduced to allow to specify the
> analog TV mode to be used.
> 
> However, this was causing multiple issues:
> 
>   * The mode name parsed on the command line was passed directly to the
>     driver, which had to figure out which mode it was suppose to match;
> 
>   * Figuring that out wasn't really easy, since the video= argument or what
>     the userspace might not even have a name in the first place, but
>     instead could have passed a mode with the same timings;
> 
>   * The fallback to matching on the timings was mostly working as long as
>     we were supporting one 525 lines (most likely NSTC) and one 625 lines
>     (PAL), but couldn't differentiate between two modes with the same
>     timings (NTSC vs PAL-M vs NSTC-J for example); 
> 
>   * There was also some overlap with the tv mode property registered by 
>     drm_mode_create_tv_properties(), but named modes weren't interacting
>     with that property at all.
> 
>   * Even though that property was generic, its possible values were
>     specific to each drivers, which made some generic support difficult.
> 
> Thus, I chose to tackle in multiple steps:
> 
>   * A new TV norm property was introduced, with generic values, each driver
>     reporting through a bitmask what standard it supports to the userspace;
> 
>   * This option was added to the command line parsing code to be able to
>     specify it on the kernel command line, and new atomic_check and reset
>     helpers were created to integrate properly into atomic KMS;
> 
>   * The named mode parsing code is now creating a proper display mode for
>     the given named mode, and the TV standard will thus be part of the
>     connector state;
> 
>   * Two drivers were converted and tested for now (vc4 and sun4i), with
>     some backward compatibility code to translate the old TV mode to the
>     new TV mode;
> 
> Unit tests were created along the way. Nouveau, ch7006 and gud are
> currently broken for now since I expect that work to be reworked fairly
> significantly. I'm also not entirely sure about how to migrate GUD to the
> new property.
> 
> Let me know what you think,
> Maxime
> 

I don't know if it's related to this patchset or not, but I do get this:

pi at pi4t:~ $ sudo dmesg -C && sudo modprobe -r vc4 && sudo modprobe vc4
&& dmesg
[  430.066211] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x30
[  431.294788] vc4-drm gpu: bound fe400000.hvs (ops vc4_hvs_ops [vc4])
[  431.295115] vc4-drm gpu: bound fec13000.vec (ops vc4_vec_ops [vc4])
[  431.295467] vc4-drm gpu: bound fe004000.txp (ops vc4_txp_ops [vc4])
[  431.295804] vc4-drm gpu: bound fec12000.pixelvalve (ops vc4_crtc_ops
[vc4])
[  431.298895] [drm] Initialized vc4 0.0.0 20140616 for gpu on minor 0
[  441.444250] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:68:crtc-1] flip_done
timed out
[  441.446529] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x30
[  451.684321] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
[  451.684347] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:68:crtc-1] commit wait
timed out
[  461.924255] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
[  461.924281] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CONNECTOR:45:Composite-1]
commit wait timed out
[  472.164006] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
[  472.164031] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [PLANE:61:plane-1] commit wait
timed out
[  482.403877] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
[  482.403903] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* Timed out waiting for commit
[  492.643799] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:68:crtc-1] flip_done
timed out
[  492.647073] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] fb0: vc4drmfb frame buffer device

Noralf.