I thought it just required the existing firmware, with padding / extra info
put around it?

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 12:29 Christian König <
ckoenig.leichtzumer...@gmail.com> wrote:

> UVD/VCE on SI with amdgpu would need new firmware.
>
> And so far we never had time to actually look into releasing that firmware.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
>
> Am 08.10.2018 um 13:22 schrieb Mauro Rossi:
>
> Hi Mike,
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 1:00 PM Mike Lothian <m...@fireburn.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mauro
>>
>> Do you know if there are any plans to add in UVD support on SI too?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> At the moment my focus is on getting a conformant, working and stable
> implementation of Atomic Display Framework, with the objective to have it
> upstreamed to amd-gfx branch, then staging (drm-next) and maybe merged in
> linux kernel.
>
> To be honest my attempt is based on code paths inspection and mimicking,
> so in this moment I do not even know the state of UVD and what changes are
> needed,
> but, based on what I saw for DCE6 support addition on top of DCE8,
> covering all compatible HW modules makes a lot of sense and it is an
> opportunity to exploit,
> if feasible.
>
> For this to happen in most complete and reliable way the feedback of staff
> who worked on DAL/DC
> will be essential, because what I did now was to adapt code for DCE8 to
> work for DCE6,
> but it was like an "optimistic monkey with a keyboard" approach, with all
> due respect for monkeys with keyboards,
> :-) I may have missed dozen of changes.
>
> Mauro
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 03:24 Mauro Rossi <issor.or...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [PATCH 01/10] drm/amd/display: add asics info for SI parts
>>> [PATCH 02/10] drm/amd/display: dc/dce: add DCE6 support
>>> [PATCH 03/10] drm/amd/display: dc/core: add DCE6 support
>>> [PATCH 04/10] drm/amd/display: dc/bios: add support for DCE6
>>> [PATCH 05/10] drm/amd/display: dc/gpio: add support for DCE6
>>> [PATCH 06/10] drm/amd/display: dc/i2caux: add support for DCE6
>>> [PATCH 07/10] drm/amd/display: dc/irq: add support for DCE6
>>> [PATCH 08/10] drm/amd/display: amdgpu_dm: add SI support
>>> [PATCH 09/10] drm/amdgpu: enable DC support for SI parts
>>> [PATCH 10/10] drm/amd/display: enable SI support in the Kconfig
>>>
>>> The series adds preliminar SI support as a Proof Of Concept,
>>> based on the idea that DCE6 is similar to DCE8, to be reviewed and
>>> refined
>>>
>>> Android-x86 need/motivation lies in the following chain of dependencies:
>>> Vulkan radv requires gbm gralloc prime_fd support,
>>> gbm gralloc requires drm hwcomposer,
>>> drm hwcomposer requires Atomic Display Framework,
>>> Atomic Display Framework requires AMD DC, currently not supporting SI.
>>>
>>> So the goals are:
>>> 1) to get Vulkan radv working on SI parts for android-x86.
>>> 2) to remove the gap in SI (GCN 1st gen) not having atomic support.
>>>
>>> DCE6 specific code was implemented as a replica of existing DCE8 support
>>> and based on how DCE8 specific code was added on top of DCE10,11 support
>>> by adding dce60* sources, functions, macros for each existing in dce80*
>>>
>>> CONFIG_DRM_AMD_DC_SI parameter has been added to control SI support in DC
>>>
>>> During this first iteration of review, there are aspects to verify:
>>> - dce60 code has been added mechanically, so there may be redundancies
>>> and space for refactoring part of the code
>>> - dce60_resources was having too many building errors due to missing
>>> DCE6 macros
>>> in order to temporarily overcome the problem dce_8_0_{d,sh_mask}.h
>>> headers
>>> were used for the PoC
>>> - dc/irq suffered the same problem dce_8_0_{d,sh_mask}.h headers
>>> were used for the PoC
>>> - gfx6 may require some ad hoc initialization, skipped for the moment
>>> - Hainan specific code requires review, as some documentation and code
>>> paths
>>> seem to point that famility may not have DCE6, please confirm
>>> - video decoding blocks code have not been touched
>>> - dc/dce/dce_clock_source.{c,h} may be missing some SI/DCE6 specifics
>>> - dc/dce/dce_dmcu.{c,h} may be missing some SI/DCE6 specifics
>>> - dc/dce/dce_hwseq.h may be missing some SI/DCE6 specifics
>>> - dc/dce/dce_link_encoder.h may be missing some SI/DCE6 specifics
>>> - dc/dce/dce_stream_encoder.h may be missing some SI/DCE6 specifics
>>> - dc/amdgpu_dm/* changes may be incomplete
>>> - Any other omissis to be reviewed
>>> - Feedback on best testing strategy required
>>>
>>> Review from an expert of the DC impacted modules is recommended
>>>
>>>     SW Layer
>>> /===============================================================\
>>> | DC        Display     Timing          Mode        Asic        |
>>> | Interface Service     Service         Manager     Capability* |
>>> |                                                               |
>>> | Display   Topology    Display         Link        Adapter     |
>>> | Path      Manager     Capability      Service     Service     |
>>> |                       Service                                 |
>>> |---------------------------------------------------------------|
>>> | GPIO*     IRQ         I2cAux          HW          BIOS        |
>>> |           Service**   Manager*        Sequencer*  Parser*     |
>>> |                                                               |
>>> | Connector Encoder     Audio           GPU         Controller  |
>>> |                                                               |
>>> \===============================================================/
>>>     HW Layer
>>>
>>> Legend:
>>> *dce60 support was added cleanly with dce_6_0_{d,sh_mask}.h headers
>>> **dce60 support was added using dce_8_0_{d,sh_mask}.h headers
>>>
>>> Android-x86 preliminary tests results:
>>>
>>> [Boots with drm gralloc]
>>> 3DMark Slingshot
>>> GFXbench OpenGLES benchmarks OK
>>> V1 GPU benchmark (OpenGLES) OK
>>> Regression in Google Chrome, Youtube (app does not show up)
>>> Regression in Olympus Rising,  Chicken Invaders (app does not show up)
>>>
>>> [Boots with drm hwcomposer + gbm gralloc]
>>> Google Chrome, Youtube are OK
>>> Vulkan radv HAL API becomes available with hwc+gbm gralloc
>>> V1 GPU benchmark (Vulkan API) OK
>>> Sacha Willems examples OK
>>> Some glitch/freeze in 3DMark Slingshot Extreeme and API overhead
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Mauro Rossi
>>> android-x86 team
>>>
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