[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/dp: force eDP lane count to max available lanes on BDW

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 14 May 2014, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com> wrote:
> We do have to continue the investigation on the link training side, but
> since 76711 is a critical I'm completely in favor of this workaround for
> now.
>
> I just tested and it worked very well here, so:
>
> Tested-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com>

Pushed to -fixes, thanks for the review and testing.

BR,
Jani.

>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> There are certain BDW high res eDP machines that regressed due to
>>
>> commit 38aecea0ccbb909d635619cba22f1891e589b434
>> Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>> Date:   Mon Mar 3 11:18:10 2014 +0100
>>
>>     drm/i915: reverse dp link param selection, prefer fast over wide again
>>
>> The commit lead to 2 lanes at 5.4 Gbps being used instead of 4 lanes at
>> 2.7 Gbps on the affected machines. Link training succeeded for both, but
>> the screen remained blank with the former config. Further investigation
>> showed that 4 lanes at 5.4 Gbps worked also.
>>
>> The root cause for the blank screen using 2 lanes remains unknown, but
>> apparently the driver for a certain other operating system by default
>> uses the max available lanes. Follow suit on Broadwell eDP, for at least
>> until we figure out what is going on.
>>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76711
>> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 7 ++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
>> index 9f67b724dc28..6eaefca0048d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
>> @@ -849,7 +849,12 @@ intel_dp_compute_config(struct intel_encoder *encoder,
>>                         bpp = dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp;
>>                 }
>>
>> -               if (dev_priv->vbt.edp_lanes) {
>> +               if (IS_BROADWELL(dev)) {
>> +                       /* Yes, it's an ugly hack. */
>> +                       min_lane_count = max_lane_count;
>> +                       DRM_DEBUG_KMS("forcing lane count to max (%u) on
>> BDW\n",
>> +                                     min_lane_count);
>> +               } else if (dev_priv->vbt.edp_lanes) {
>>                         min_lane_count = min(dev_priv->vbt.edp_lanes,
>>                                              max_lane_count);
>>                         DRM_DEBUG_KMS("using min %u lanes per VBT\n",
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Rodrigo Vivi
> Blog: http://blog.vivi.eng.br

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center