Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: scan: Ignore Dell XPS 9320 camera graph port nodes

Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-06-12T12:32:39Z

Hi Sakari,

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 2:26 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 02:21:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 2:10 PM Sakari Ailus
> > <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Hans,
> > >
> > > Just read this discussion, too...
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 12:08:49PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On 6/6/24 8:12 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > +To: Rafael since this was Cc-ed to linux-acpi but never send
> > > > > to Rafael directly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Rafael this fixes a crash in 6.10-rc1 for some users and is necessary
> > > > > to make the cameras work on the Dell XPS 13 plus 9320 .
> > > > >
> > > > > On 5/28/24 7:09 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > >> Hi Sakari,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On 5/28/24 10:44 AM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > > >>> Ignore camera related graph port nodes on Dell XPS 9320. They data in BIOS
> > > > >>> is buggy, just like it is for Dell XPS 9315. The corresponding software
> > > > >>> nodes are created by the ipu-bridge.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> > > > >>> ---
> > > > >>> Hi,
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Could you test this and see whether it fixes the warning?
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> The camera might work with this change, too.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Thank you I just received a Dell XPS 13 plus 9320 myself to use
> > > > >> for VSC testing and I can confirm that with this patch 6.10.0-rc1
> > > > >> works, including giving a picture with the libcamera software ISP +
> > > > >> 3 small libcamera patches.
> > > > >
> > > > > I forgot to add:
> > > > >
> > > > > Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > >
> > > > I just hit the same problem on another Dell laptop. It seems that
> > > > all Dell laptops with IPU6 camera from the Tiger Lake, Alder Lake
> > > > and Raptor Lake generations suffer from this problem.
> > > >
> > > > So instead of playing whack a mole with DMI matches we should
> > > > simply disable ACPI MIPI DISCO support on all Dell laptops
> > > > with those CPUs. I'm preparing a fix for this to replace
> > > > the DMI matching now.
> > >
> > > DisCo for Imaging support shouldn't be dropped on these systems, and this
> > > isn't what your patch does either. Instead the ACPI graph port nodes (as
> > > per Linux specific definitions) are simply dropped, i.e. this isn't related
> > > to DisCo for Imaging at all.
> >
> > So it looks like the changelog of that patch could be improved, right?
>
> Well, yes. The reason the function is in the file is that nearly all camera
> related parsing is located there, not that it would be related to DisCo for
> Imaging as such.

So IIUC the camera graph port nodes are created by default with the
help of the firmware-supplied information, but if that is defective a
quirk can be added to skip the creation of those ports in which case
they will be created elsewhere.

Is this correct?