[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Add a DRM property "psr"

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 01:53:56PM -0700, Siva Chandra wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:51:07 -0700
>> > Siva Chandra <sivachandra at chromium.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> This property helps one turn PSR "on" and "off" via xrandr.
>> >> The default value is same as that of the module param i915.enable_psr.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Siva Chandra <sivachandra at google.com>
>> >> ---
>> >
>> > So are you using this in Chromium for disabling PSR in cases where it
>> > doesn't work?  Or to optimize power consumption when the kernel driver
>> > gets it wrong?  Or just for debug?
>> 
>> We are testing a few PSR panels; Having a knob to turn PSR on and off
>> would be of great convenience for manual testing and for test scripts.
>
> Is the module param not good enough for that? Iirc we recheck that every
> time ...

The only thing missing is that changing the module parameter does not
actually change the psr state. So you need to change the parameter and
then cause intel_edp_psr_update to happen.

Jani.


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