[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Enable FBC on GEN7 by default

[Ben Widawsky]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 06:41:47PM -0700, Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Ben Widawsky
> <benjamin.widawsky at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > I am not clear why we've never enabled it by default for GEN7. Looking
> > at the git hostiry, it seems Rodrigo disabled it by default, and it's
> > never been turned on. Quite a few fixes have gone in over the past year,
> > and I think many of us are running this successfully.
> 
> Did you try with a high resolution panel? I could never get IVB FBC to
> be completely stable with a 2560x1700 panel...
> 
> Stéphane

1600x900 is working fine. At my current laziness, that's the best I can
test. I can try on a higher resolution tomorrow.  Perhaps the solution
would be to disable if the resolution goes above a certain point.

Honestly, I assumed there was a reason it was disabled, I just couldn't
find it.

> 
> >
> > If there is some reason we know of why we don't enable this by default
> > on GEN7, then please ignore the patch, and forgive my laziness.
> >
> > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > index a7da962..a9890df 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ void intel_update_fbc(struct drm_device *dev)
> >         adjusted_mode = &intel_crtc->config.adjusted_mode;
> >
> >         if (i915.enable_fbc < 0 &&
> > -           INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen <= 7 && !IS_HASWELL(dev)) {
> > +           INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen <= 6) {
> >                 if (set_no_fbc_reason(dev_priv, FBC_CHIP_DEFAULT))
> >                         DRM_DEBUG_KMS("disabled per chip default\n");
> >                 goto out_disable;
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >
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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center