Re: [PATCH 02/13] drm/atomic: Update legacy DPMS state during modesets.

Daniel Vetter
2015-07-16T09:28:43Z

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:24:02AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Op 16-07-15 om 11:19 schreef Daniel Vetter:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:59:15AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> >> This is required for DPMS to work correctly, during a modeset
> >> the DPMS property should be turned off, unless the crtc
> >> is made active in which case it should be set to DPMS on.
> >>
> >> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> >> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> >> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> >> index 70e69904291d..cdec643971a2 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> >> @@ -642,6 +642,12 @@ drm_atomic_helper_update_legacy_modeset_state(struct drm_device *dev,
> >>
> >> /* clear out existing links */
> >> for_each_connector_in_state(old_state, connector, old_conn_state, i) {
> >> + struct drm_crtc *crtc = connector->state->crtc;
> >> +
> >> + if (crtc &&
> >> + drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset(crtc->state))
> >> + connector->dpms = DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF;
> > Same here, why only update when something changed? I already applied my
> > patch from yesterday which updates this always (with Daniel Stone's r-b),
> > does that one not work?
> >
> Not when in cloned mode.
>
> 2 connectors on same crtc.
>
> Update dpms property to off connector 1, commit. update_legacy_modeset_state will reset it to DPMS_ON.
> Update dpms property to off on connector 2, commit. update_legacy_modeset_state will reset it to DPMS_ON.
>
> Expected result: DPMS on the screen is OFF
> Actual result: ON with i915.

Ok this definitely needs a comment plus better commit message somewhere
since obviously I understood it only now. I'll drop my patch.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation