linux-kernel - Re: DRM interaction problems on Ingenic CI20 / jz4780 with dw-hdmi and ingenic-drm

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Message-Id: <AAFD4E35-E830-4CED-956E-E354BC012698@goldelico.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:46:12 +0200
From:   "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
To:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>,
        "open list:DRM PANEL DRIVERS" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc:     Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Andy Yan <andy.yan@...k-chips.com>,
        Yakir Yang <ykk@...k-chips.com>,
        Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@...tor.com>,
        Paul Boddie <paul@...die.org.uk>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        MIPS Creator CI20 Development 
        <mips-creator-ci20-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: DRM interaction problems on Ingenic CI20 / jz4780 with dw-hdmi and ingenic-drm


> Am 13.04.2020 um 13:25 schrieb Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>:
> 
> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
> 
> Le sam. 11 avril 2020 à 16:14, H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@...delico.com> a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> we (Paul Boddie and me) are working to get HDMI functional on the
>> Ingenic CI20 board with jz4780 SoC which uses a specialization of
>> the dw-hdmi driver.
>> So far we have identified two issues.
>> The first is that HPD interrupts are not properly processed.
>> drm_helper_hpd_irq_event() is called by HPD events but
>> dev->mode_config.poll_enabled is false.
>> Therefore the interrupt is ignored and nothing happens.
>> Now I wonder about the logic behind checking for poll_enabled.
>> I understand that a driver can do either polling or irq or both.
>> Therefore handling the irq_event shouldn't be disabled by poll_enabled
>> being false. Otherwise we can only do: nothing, polling, polling+irq
>> but not irq alone.
>> The jz4780 hdmi subsystem (drm/bridge/dw-hdmi.c) uses
>> 	connector->polled = DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_HPD;
>> but shouldn't this enable polling? Note that there seems to be
>> no (direct) call to drm_kms_helper_poll_init().
>> If we set dev->mode_config.poll_enabled = true in
>> drm_helper_hpd_irq_event() things start to work.
>> Please can you clarify what would be best practise here to
>> get HPD event handling working.
>> The other issue is in dw-hdmi.c:
>> We found out that ingenic_drm_encoder_atomic_check() fails because
>> info->num_bus_formats == 0
>> and not 1. This blocks further initialization.
>> The reason seems to be that dw_hdmi_bridge_attach() does not call
>> drm_display_info_set_bus_formats() with a proper format like
>> other drivers (e.g. drm/bridge/ti-tfp410.c) are doing.
>> We have patched to set a single bus format MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X24
>> and then DRM setup seems to work (although we still have no valid
>> HDMI signal but that is likely something else).
>> Please can you explain how setting the bus format should be fixed
>> in dw-hdmi.c.
>> If these questions should be forwarded to other specialists, please
>> do so.
> 
> It should be sent to the DRI mailing list, you missed the most important one.

Ah, ok.

> 
> -Paul
> 
>> BR and thanks,
>> Nikolaus Schaller