linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/panel: panel-edp: Match with panel hash for overridden modes

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Message-ID: <CAD=FV=WYLgFUhmvNdLe8JgQzNKrb=TDyE1qj-AgU6Z8DH9WcZw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:24:24 -0800
From: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>
Cc: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>, Jessica Zhang <quic_jesszhan@...cinc.com>, 
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, 
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/panel: panel-edp: Match with panel hash for
 overridden modes

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:39 PM Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:40 PM Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's found that some panels have variants that they share the same panel id
> > > although their EDID and names are different. One of the variants requires
> > > using overridden modes to resolve glitching issue as described in commit
> > > 70e0d5550f5c ("drm/panel-edp: Add auo_b116xa3_mode"). Other variants should
> > > use the modes parsed from EDID.
> > >
> > > For example, AUO 0x405c B116XAK01.0, it has at least 2 different variants
> > > that EDID and panel name are different, but using the same panel id. One of
> > > the variants require using overridden mode. Same case for AUO 0x615c
> > > B116XAN06.1.
> > >
> > > Add such entries and use the hash of the EDID to match the panel needs the
> > > overridden modes.
> >
> > As pointed out in an offline discussion, it's possible that we might
> > want to "ignore" some of these bytes for the purpose of the CRC.
> > Specifically, we might want to ignore:
> > * byte 16 - Week of manufacture
> > * byte 17 - Year of manufacture
> > * byte 127 - Checksum
> >
> > That way if a manufacturer actually is updating those numbers in
> > production we can still have one hash that captures all the panels. I
> > have no idea if manufacturers actually are, but IMO the hash of the
> > rest of the base block should be sufficient to differentiate between
> > different panels anyway. It would be easy to just zero out those 3
> > bytes before computing the CRC.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Agreed that we can zero out these fields.

Ah, in (yet another) offline comment, someone also pointed out bytes
12-15 should also be ignored for the CRC. Those are the serial number.

-Doug