** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => Fix Committed
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Packages, which is subscribed to linux-oem in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1782689
Title:
HDMI/DP audio can't work on the laptop of Dell Latitude 5495
Status in HWE Next:
New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Status in linux-oem package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
Fix Committed
Status in linux-oem source package in Bionic:
New
Bug description:
In the v2:
the patchset is also sent to OEM-B since the OEM project is waiting for the
patchset.
The v1 introduced a building error, my investigation is shown as below:
The declaration of "enum vga_switcheroo_client_id (*get_client_id)(struct
pci_dev *pdev);"and the implementation of "static int
nouveau_dsm_get_client_id(struct pci_dev *pdev)"
exist in the kernel (bionic, artful) for a long time, but
"-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types" didn't report it as an error, after
applied these 2 patches, it is reported as an error,
that is because the patch touches the definition of "enum
vga_switcheroo_client_id", before applying these 2 patches, the
vga_switcheroo_client_id includes a negative numer:VGA_SWITCHEROO_UNKNOWN_ID =
-1, but after applying the patches, there is no negative number anymore in the
"enum vga_swicheroo_client_id".
I guess if the definition of enum includes negative number, the c
compiler treat it as int type, that is why artful and bionic did not
expose building error before.
To fix the building error, I cherry-picked 4 more patches [3/6-6/6],
and the purpose of those 4 patches is straightforward.
In the v1:
This bug comes from the OEM project, and the engineer Jim Qu from AMD took
almost 2 weeks to investigate this problem, then he worte two patches to fix
this problem and now the patches are merged to sound repository.
According to Jim Qu's investigation, the root cause of this problem is:
1. there is two GPU on the system. iGPU has a audio codec for HDMI output,
and dGPU is without audio codec it is only for offload rendering.
2. under runtime pm, when dGPU suspend, amdgpu will also call vgaswitchroo
driver to power off audio which vgaswitchroo client is VGA_SWITCHEROO_DIS.
3. In current HDA audio driver, the iGPU's audio will register to
vgaswitchroo as VGA_SWITCHEROO_DIS, therefore, the audio will be selected and
powered off by runtime pm.
[Impact]
On the Dell Latitude 5495, If we plug a monitor with audio capability to the
HDMI/DP ports, we can't find HDMI/DP audio sinks as expected, then we can't
play any sound through HDMI/DP audio.
[Fix]
With these 6 patches, the driver will not always set vgaswicheroo clients of
HDA audio as VGA_SWITCHEROO_DIS, it will set it to _DIS or _IGD with the help
of callback function of DRM drivers. So on this machine, the vgaswicheroo
client will be set _IGD, then it will not be powered off when discrete gpu is
powered off.
[Test Case]
We tested plug/unplug detection and playback through HDMI/DP audio,
everything works well.
[Regression Potential]
Very low, without these 6 patches, the vgaswitchroo client of audio will be
set to _DIS unconditionally, it did not expose any problem because in the past,
all the HDMI/DP audio codecs are in the discreate GPU. But on Latitude 5495,
the HDMI/DP audio codec is in the integrated GPU, so we need to change the
driver to let DRM driver decide if it is _DIS or _IGD, it will not introduce
regression for
old mahcines on old machines, the client will be set to _DIS as before.
And we have tested these two patches on some old machines with two
gpus like A+A, I+A and I+N, all of them worked well as before.
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1782689/+subscriptions
--
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages
Post to : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
