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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:53:14 +0200
From:   Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@...ainline.org>
To:     Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@...cinc.com>
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Subject: Re: [Freedreno] [PATCH v2 04/17] drm/msm/dpu: Fix PP_BLK_DIPHER ->
 DITHER typo

On 2023-04-25 14:37:21, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/25/2023 1:43 PM, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> > On 2023-04-25 09:47:30, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/25/2023 9:33 AM, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> >>> On 2023-04-25 09:18:58, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 4/24/2023 11:54 PM, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> >>>>> On 2023-04-24 16:09:45, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> >>>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>>> dither block should be present on many other chipsets too but looks like
> >>>>>>>> on sm8550 was enabling it. Not sure how it was validated there. But we
> >>>>>>>> are enabling dither, even other chipsets have this block.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Correct, they all seem to have it starting at sdm845.  My patch message
> >>>>>>> seems to lack the word "exclusively" as the PP on sm8550 appears to
> >>>>>>> exclusively contain a DITHER subblock (unless other blocks are available
> >>>>>>> that simply aren't supported within this driver yet) and no other
> >>>>>>> registers.  Hence this aptly named macro exist to emit just the feature
> >>>>>>> bitflag for that and a .len of zero.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I think after the TE blocks were moved to INTF, dither is the only
> >>>>>> sub-block for all Ping-Pongs not just in sm8550.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So you are asking / leaving context to make all >= 5.0.0 pingpong blocks
> >>>>> use this macro with only a single DITHER sblk in PP?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As far as I recall SM8550 is the first SoC to use zero registers in PP,
> >>>>> which is specifically what this macro takes care of too.  Then, there
> >>>>> are only a few SoCs downstream still (erroneously?) referencing TE2 as
> >>>>> the only other sub-blk, those SoCs still use sdm845_pp_sblk_te.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> So, what I didnt follow is why should sm8450 use PP_BLK_TE Vs sm8550
> >>>> should use PP_BLK_DIPHER?
> >>>>
> >>>> Atleast for those two, both should be using PP_BLK_DIPHER.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thats what I was trying to note here.
> >>>>
> >>>> This isnt even right as there is no PP_BLK_TE in sm8450.
> >>>
> >>> SM8450 doesn't use PP_BLK_TE (TE2) anymore since the second patch in
> >>> this series.  If you think it should use the DITHER (not DIPHER!) macro
> >>> instead of the regular PP_BLK with a size of 0xd4, we can do that in
> >>> another patch as that's not strictly related to this series.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, thanks for pointing the TE2 was removed in the prev patch of this
> >> series for sm8450. I was just focusing too much on this patch.
> >>
> >> And Yes, I think we should use the DIPHER ..... oh sorry .... DITHER ;)
> >>
> >> Yes, it can go as a different series, like I already wrote many times in
> >> this.
> > 
> > Thanks, that'd be great.  I wasn't sure at this point what you wanted to
> > be changed here, after commenting on a typo fix rather than i.e. patch 2
> > that deals with the TE2 sub-block of PP :)
> > 
> 
> The reason I commented on this patch is because all the discussion so 
> far was surrounding the PP_BLK_DITHER macro which was being touched in 
> this patch.
> 
> So even now, we found out about sm8450 and sm8550 because of the 
> question that why sm8550 alone should use PP_BLK_DITHER and not sm8450.
> 
> This patch led to all the discussion about PP_BLK_DITHER.
> 
> Even though it was just a typo fix patch, it uncovered deeper issues in 
> catalog about why PP_BLK_DITHER wasnt used more often.

Indeed: the initial question was for the dither _block_ which is enabled
on every other platform, just through the original macros which do more
than exclusively enabling the dither block.

> >> But atleast now, someone will remember to do it.

I'll see whether I can include these fixes before sending v3 (got all
the other changes in and am all-ready to send it): is there any other
SoC you're seeing this issue on?

- Marijn

> >>> Note that that's the only difference between these macros.  The size
> >>> becomes 0 but the .features mask is the same (SM8450 uses
> >>> PINGPONG_SM8150_MASK).
> >>>
> >>> These patches are anyway already distracting from my series, but were
> >>> easier to do in one go as I was touching the PP and INTF catalog blocks
> >>> regardless.
> >>>
> >>> While at it, perhaps we should check if the version and offset for the
> >>> DITHER block are correct?  SM8450 uses SDM845 sblk definitions.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes I already checked. the version and offset of dither are same between
> >> sm8450 and sm8550.
> > 
> > Thanks for checking, so then sm8450 is wrong on multiple occasions.
> > Let's check all other SoCs that use sdm845_pp_sblk whether they should
> > have used sc7280_pp_sblk instead.
> > 
> > - Marijn

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