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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: don't disable disconnected outputs
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:02:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453bf0$626hb2@azsmga001.ch.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349977587-7534-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:46:27 +0200, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> This piece of neat lore has been ported painstakingly and bug-for-bug
> compatible from the old crtc helper code.
> 
> Imo it's utter nonsense.
> 
> If you have disconnect a cable and before you reconnect it, userspace
> (or the kernel) does an set_crtc call, this will result in that
> connector getting disable. Which will result in a nice black screen
> when plugging in the cable again.
> 
> There's absolutely no reason the kernel does such policy changes - if
> userspace tries to set up a mode on something disconnected we might
> fail loudly (since the dp link training fails), but silently adjusting
> the output configuration behind userspace's back is a recipe for
> disaster. Specifically I think that this could explain some of our
> MI_WAIT hangs around suspend, where userspace issues a scanline wait
> on a disable pipe. This mechanisims here could explain how that pipe
> got disabled without userspace noticing.

Indeed, it might just explain all those funky disables on other crtc
after a setcrtc.

Won't a side effect of this be that the system continues to power a
disconnected output if userspace is asleep and fails to notice the
disconnect?
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-12  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-11 17:46 [PATCH] drm/i915: don't disable disconnected outputs Daniel Vetter
2012-10-12  9:02 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2012-10-12  9:13   ` Daniel Vetter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-12-18  8:37 Daniel Vetter
2012-12-18 11:58 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2012-12-18 16:56 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jesse Barnes
2012-12-18 20:33   ` Daniel Vetter

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