[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: force full modeset if the connector is in DPMS OFF mode

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
>> Not quite. It was added afterwards, I know for it is one of my mistakes
>> that I belatedly recognised as trying to workaround a bug in UXA. And we
>> then layered on further bugs to try and patch up the glaring holes then
>> introduced.
>
> I've done some digging around and found some cool stuff, but no change
> which introduce the original bug that we've never consulted dpms state
> in drm_crtc_helper_set_mode but just blindly enabled encoders. Most of
> the commits I've dug out try to paper over that mismatch by updating
> dpms state, too. E.g. bf9dc102 which was then fixed up a bit in
> 811aaa55 but I don't see any mention of someone explicitly kill dpms
> checks.
>
> Of course for DP support we've started to add dpms state checks to our
> dp encoder (since double-enable kills DP). Then duplicated the
> drm_connector->dpms into our own intel_dp->dpms state since the crtc
> helpers liked to frob around with dpms in a rather ill-defined way.
> But that's just hilarity and flailing around on top, nothing that I
> could see fundamentally changed that a full setcrtc implicitly enabled
> the encoders/crtc hw. And since we have our own modeset code that all
> disappeared (since a full modeset simply force-updates the dpms state
> to reflect reality).
>
> But nowhere have a found a commit to support your claim, just lots of
> flailing around due to the ill-defined semantics of this all. Care to
> do some more digging?

Ping for history digging ... or an ack on the patch ;-)

Alternative ideas are welcome too ofc, but under the assumption that
setcrtc always kinda enabled encoders/connectors implicitly
(neglecting a few funny corner cases every screwed up in different
ways) this hack here seems the most sensible&consistent option we
have.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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