[Intel-gfx] DP compliance failure due to dithering for 18bpp video pattern

[Manasi Navare]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 03:41:07PM -0800, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Manasi Navare
> <manasi.d.navare at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:32:09PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:09:16PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare at intel.com> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi All,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > We are seeing CRC check failures in some of the 18bpp video pattern
> >> >> > DP Compliance tests causing the tests to fail. On further investigation, it is
> >> >> > rootcaused to dithering that the i915 driver enables in case of 18bpp pipe
> >> >> > configuration that messes up the CRC and causes the test to fail.
> >> >>
> >> >> The CTS spec actually accounts for CRC failures caused by dithering and
> >> >> color space conversions. See section 3.2.1. However, it would be
> >> >> preferrable to be able to automate this.
> >> >>
> >> >> > Some of the approaches that can solve this problem are:
> >> >> > 1.  Add a new method in intel_dp.c to request the compliance test state.
> >> >> > Call this new method in intel_display.c to not enable dithering during a
> >> >> > compliance test. Issue with this is it makes the general portion of the driver
> >> >> > compliance aware.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > 2.  Move the dithering enable to compute_config methods in all encoder source
> >> >> > files. Issue: Lot of duplicate code and DP is the only encoder that uses 18bpc.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > 3.  Disable dithering at all times in the driver. However this can cause image
> >> >> > quality issue with 8bpc plane and 6 bit pipe.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Any suggestions on which approach can be implemented in order to pass
> >> >> > compliance?
> >> >>
> >> >> I can't find any mention in the specs that we couldn't enable/disable
> >> >> dithering on the fly. It's PIPE_MISC for BDW+ and PIPE_CONF for the
> >> >> rest. So I'm wondering about doing...
> >> >>
> >> >> 4. Disable dithering at intel_dp_sink_crc_start() and enable it again
> >> >>    (according to config->dither) at intel_dp_sink_crc_stop(). It's
> >> >>    similar to the hsw_disable_ips() and hsw_enable_ips() calls, but
> >> >>    would have to cover more platforms.
> >> >>
> >
> > intel_dp_sink_crc_start() gets called only through the debugfs interface.
> 
> Do you really use this sink crc for the compliance tests?
> Or are you talking about some other CRC level check like in the compliance box?
>

Exactly, DPR 120 does a CRC check on the pixel values during the 18bpp video pattern
tests. So we need to disable dithering before that modeset or during intel_modeset_pipe_config()
where it sets pipe_config->dither to true.
So I am not sure I understand how disabling the dithering at intel_dp_sink_crc_start() would help.

Manasi 
> > If we disable dithering here, DPR 120 which is calculating the CRC of the
> > pixels on the rendered video pattern would already have dithering enabled on it.
> > So how will this solve our issue of CRC failures in case of 18bpc test?
> >
> > Manasi
> >
> >
> >> >> Ville, thoughts on changing dithering on the fly?
> >> >
> >> > Should be fine I think.
> >> >
> >> > BTW see
> >> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2016-December/115186.html
> >> > if you intend to add more crc workaround type of things. There I'm
> >> > changing the IPS w/a to force a full modeset because it was the easiest
> >> > way to do things, and the current thing is just broken.
> >>
> >> I think forcing a modeset for sink crc would be rather annoying.
> >>
> >> BR,
> >> Jani.
> >>
> >>
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> >> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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