Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm_edid: Add a function to get EDID base block

Jani Nikula
2024-02-29T16:43:30Z

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 5:27 PM Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 1:09 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org> wrote:
>> > > It's found that some panels have variants that they share the same panel id
>> > > although their EDID and names are different. Besides panel id, now we need
>> > > the hash of entire EDID base block to distinguish these panel variants.
>> > >
>> > > Add drm_edid_get_base_block to returns the EDID base block, so caller can
>> > > further use it to get panel id and/or the hash.
>> >
>> > Please reconsider the whole approach here.
>> >
>> > Please let's not add single-use special case functions to read an EDID
>> > base block.
>> >
>> > Please consider reading the whole EDID, using the regular EDID reading
>> > functions, and use that instead.
>> >
>> > Most likely you'll only have 1-2 blocks anyway. And you might consider
>> > caching the EDID in struct panel_edp if reading the entire EDID is too
>> > slow. (And if it is, this is probably sensible even if the EDID only
>> > consists of one block.)
>> >
>> > Anyway, please do *not* merge this as-is.
>> >
>>
>> hi Jani,
>>
>> I sent a v2 here implementing this method:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240228011133.1238439-2-hsinyi@chromium.org/
>>
>> We still have to read edid twice due to:
>> 1. The first caller is in panel probe, at that time, connector is
>> still unknown, so we can't update connector status (eg. update
>> edid_corrupt).
>> 2. It's possible that the connector can have some override
>> (drm_edid_override_get) to EDID, that is still unknown during the
>> first read.
>
> I'll also comment in Hsin-Yi's v2, but given Hsin-Yi's digging and the
> fact that we can't cache the EDID (because we don't yet have a
> "drm_connector"), I'd much prefer Hsin-Yi's solution here from v1 that
> allows reading just the first block. If we try to boot a device with a
> multi-block EDID we're now wastefully reading all the blocks of the
> EDID twice at bootup which will slow boot time.
>
> If you can see a good solution to avoid reading the EDID twice then
> that would be amazing, but if not it seems like we should go back to
> what's here in v1. What do you think? Anyone else have any opinions?

I haven't replied so far, because I've been going back and forth with
this. I'm afraid I don't really like either approach now. Handling the
no connector case in v2 is a bit ugly too. :(

Seems like you only need this to extend the panel ID with a hash. And
panel-edp.c is the only user of drm_edid_get_panel_id(). And EDID quirks
in drm_edid.c could theoretically hit the same problem you're solving.

So maybe something like:

u32 drm_edid_get_panel_id(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, u32 *hash);

or if you want to be fancy add a struct capturing both id and hash:

bool drm_edid_get_panel_id(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, struct drm_edid_panel_id *id);

And put the hash (or whatever mechanism you have) computation in
drm_edid.c. Just hide it all in drm_edid.c, and keep the EDID interfaces
neat.

How would that work for you?

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel