[PATCH] drm/msm/hdmi: mark interlace_allowed as true

[Abhinav Kumar]

On 11/1/2024 3:26 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 23:41, Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/18/2024 2:10 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>> The MSM HDMI driver supports interlaced modes. Set the corresponding
>>> flag to allow interlaced modes on the corresponding connectors.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi_bridge.c | 1 +
>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi_bridge.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi_bridge.c
>>> index 4a5b5112227f..643c152e6380 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi_bridge.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi_bridge.c
>>> @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ int msm_hdmi_bridge_init(struct hdmi *hdmi)
>>>        bridge->funcs = &msm_hdmi_bridge_funcs;
>>>        bridge->ddc = hdmi->i2c;
>>>        bridge->type = DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_HDMIA;
>>> +     bridge->interlace_allowed = true;
>>>        bridge->ops = DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD |
>>>                DRM_BRIDGE_OP_DETECT |
>>>                DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID;
>>>
>>
>> I had quite a bit of discussion on this internally because this spans
>> quite a few generations of chipsets.
>>
>> On very old hardware, even before msm8996, there was dedicated hardware
>> de-interlacer. But even on msm8996 or other HDMI supported chipsets
>> where the handling of if (mode->flags & DRM_MODE_FLAG_INTERLACE) is
>> present, these were because its carry forward of older interface code.
>>
>> The way we handle interlaced formats today, is software needs to handle
>> the part of dividing height / 2 and width * 2 and adjust the source crop
>> if necessary. This part has moved to userspace for recent chips.
>>
>> Othwerise, we will need to add this part in the dpu driver to adjust
>> this. I am not seeing this part there yet. So may I know how you
>> validated this change? Something similar to :
>>
>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/la/kernel/msm-4.4/-/blob/caf_migration/LE.UM.1.3.r3.25/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/sde/sde_plane.c#L1340
>>
>> If we add this part first to dpu code, then we can mark interlace_allowed.
> 
> I think you are mixing the interlaced formats and interlaced output.
> The code that you have pointed to is related to hardware deinterlacing
> - in other words taking the interlaced framebuffer and outputting it
> to the progressive display.
> 
> The interlace_allowed flag controls a different feature - filtering of
> the internalced modes (aka 576i, 1080i, etc). In this case we are
> using progressive frames, but the HDMI outputs a picture as two
> separate fields. I have validated this by outputting image (modetest)
> to the external HDMI display on IFC6410 and on DB820c boards.
> 

Yes I did think that this was to show interlaced content but that being 
said, I traced through the HDMI code a bit, it does have support for 
changing the HDMI timing but without the support of dpu, progressive 
content really cannot be converted to interlaced. So I think the HDMI 
pieces there were supposed to go along with the rest of the dpu pipeline 
that is the entire pipeline shows out interlaced content. But dpu 
support for giving out interlaced content is not there, so this hdmi 
piece by itself is not complete enough to mark interlace_allowed as true.