Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v8 1/3] gpu: drm: separate panel orientation property creating and value setting

[Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 11:57 PM Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-02-18 07:12, Simon Ser wrote:
> > On Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 12:54, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/18/22 12:39, Simon Ser wrote:
> >>> On Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 11:38, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What I'm reading in the above is that it is being considered to allow
> >>>> changing the panel-orientation value after the connector has been made
> >>>> available to userspace; and let userspace know about this through a uevent.
> >>>>
> >>>> I believe that this is a bad idea, it is important to keep in mind here
> >>>> what userspace (e.g. plymouth) uses this prorty for. This property is
> >>>> used to rotate the image being rendered / shown on the framebuffer to
> >>>> adjust for the panel orientation.
> >>>>
> >>>> So now lets assume we apply the correct upside-down orientation later
> >>>> on a device with an upside-down mounted LCD panel. Then on boot the
> >>>> following could happen:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. amdgpu exports a connector for the LCD panel to userspace without
> >>>> setting panel-orient=upside-down
> >>>> 2. plymouth sees this and renders its splash normally, but since the
> >>>> panel is upside-down it will now actually show upside-down
> >>>
> >>> At this point amdgpu hasn't probed the connector yet. So the connector
> >>> will be marked as disconnected, and plymouth shouldn't render anything.
> >>
> >> If before the initial probe of the connector there is a /dev/dri/card0
> >> which plymouth can access, then plymouth may at this point decide
> >> to disable any seemingly unused crtcs, which will make the screen go black...
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if plymouth will actually do this, but AFAICT this would
> >> not be invalid behavior for a userspace kms consumer to do and I
> >> believe it is likely that mutter will disable unused crtcs.
> >>
> >> IMHO it is just a bad idea to register /dev/dri/card0 with userspace
> >> before the initial connector probe is done. Nothing good can come
> >> of that.
> >>
> >> If all the exposed connectors initially are going to show up as
> >> disconnected anyways what is the value in registering /dev/dri/card0
> >> with userspace early ?
> >
> > OK. I'm still unsure how I feel about this, but I think I agree with
> > you. That said, the amdgpu architecture is quite involved with multiple
> > abstraction levels, so I don't think I'm equipped to write a patch to
> > fix this...
> >
>
> amdgpu_dm's connector registration already triggers a detection. See the
> calls to dc_link_detect and amdgpu_dm_update_connector_after_detect in
> amdgpu_dm_initialize_drm_device.
>
> dc_link_detect is supposed to read the edid via
> dm_helpers_read_local_edid and amdgpu_dm_update_connector_after_detect
> will update the EDID on the connector via a
> drm_connector_update_edid_property call.
>
> This all happens at driver load.
>
> I don't know why you're seeing the embedded connector as disconnected
> unless the DP-MIPI bridge for some reason doesn't indicate that the panel
> is connected at driver load.
>
> Harry
>
> > cc Daniel Vetter: can you confirm probing all connectors is a good thing
> > to do on driver module load?
> >
> >>>> I guess the initial modeline is inherited from the video-bios, but
> >>>> what about the physical size? Note that you cannot just change the
> >>>> physical size later either, that gets used to determine the hidpi
> >>>> scaling factor in the bootsplash, and changing that after the initial
> >>>> bootsplash dislay will also look ugly
> >>>>
> >>>> b) Why you need the edid for the panel-orientation property at all,
> >>>> typically the edid prom is part of the panel and the panel does not
> >>>> know that it is mounted e.g. upside down at all, that is a property
> >>>> of the system as a whole not of the panel as a standalone unit so
> >>>> in my experience getting panel-orient info is something which comes
> >>>> from the firmware /video-bios not from edid ?
> >>>
> >>> This is an internal DRM thing. The orientation quirks logic uses the
> >>> mode size advertised by the EDID.
> >>
> >> The DMI based quirking does, yes. But e.g. the quirk code directly
> >> reading this from the Intel VBT does not rely on the mode.
> >>
> >> But if you are planning on using a DMI based quirk for the steamdeck
> >> then yes that needs the mode.
> >>
> >> Thee mode check is there for 2 reasons:
> >>
> >> 1. To avoid also applying the quirk to external displays, but
> >> I think that that is also solved in most drivers by only checking for
> >> a quirk at all on the eDP connector
> >>
> >> 2. Some laptop models ship with different panels in different badges
> >> some of these are portrait (so need a panel-orient) setting and others
> >> are landscape.
> >
> > That makes sense. So yeah the EDID mode based matching logic needs to
> > stay to accomodate for these cases.
> >
> >>> I agree that at least in the Steam
> >>> Deck case it may not make a lot of sense to use any info from the
> >>> EDID, but that's needed for the current status quo.
> >>
> >> We could extend the DMI quirk mechanism to allow quirks which don't
> >> do the mode check, for use on devices where we can guarantee neither
> >> 1 nor 2 happens, then amdgpu could call the quirk code early simply
> >> passing 0x0 as resolution.
> >
> > Yeah. But per the above amdgpu should maybe probe connectors on module
> > load. If/when amdgpu is fixed to do this, then we don't need to disable
> > the mode matching logic in panel-orientation quirks anymore.
>

Hi all,

Thanks for all of the discussion. I'm not sure about how amd drm
works, but for some SoC, the panel orientation is set in panel[1].
The goal of this patch is to separate the property creation, so some
drm can optionally create it earlier before drm_dev_register().

I've sent the v9 to address some issues in v8, but the basic idea is
still the same. It has no effect to
drm_connector_set_panel_orientation_with_quirk() used in amdgpu and
i915, they work the same as before. Do you think this is reasonable?

[1]  https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.17-rc7/source/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c#L556