Hi Greg, I see this failed to make it to 3.11.8. Please consider picking
it up for 3.11.9.

Thanks,
Jani.


On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Jani Nikula <[email protected]> wrote:
> commit c6cd2ee2d59111a07cd9199564c9bdcb2d11e5cf upstream.
>
> This isn't a real fix to the problem, but rather a stopgap measure while
> trying to find a proper solution.
>
> There are several laptops out there that fail to light up the eDP panel
> in UEFI boot mode. They seem to be mostly IVB machines, including but
> apparently not limited to Dell XPS 13, Asus TX300, Asus UX31A, Asus
> UX32VD, Acer Aspire S7. They seem to work in CSM or legacy boot.
>
> The difference between UEFI and CSM is that the BIOS provides a
> different VBT to the kernel. The UEFI VBT typically specifies 18 bpp and
> 1.62 GHz link for eDP, while CSM VBT has 24 bpp and 2.7 GHz link. We end
> up clamping to 18 bpp in UEFI mode, which we can fit in the 1.62 Ghz
> link, and for reasons yet unknown fail to light up the panel.
>
> Dithering from 24 to 18 bpp itself seems to work; if we use 18 bpp with
> 2.7 GHz link, the eDP panel lights up. So essentially this is a link
> speed issue, and *not* a bpp clamping issue.
>
> The bug raised its head since
> commit 657445fe8660100ad174600ebfa61536392b7624
> Author: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Date:   Sat May 4 10:09:18 2013 +0200
>
>     Revert "drm/i915: revert eDP bpp clamping code changes"
>
> which started clamping bpp *before* computing the link requirements, and
> thus affecting the required bandwidth. Clamping after the computations
> kept the link at 2.7 GHz.
>
> Even though the BIOS tells us to use 18 bpp through the VBT, it happily
> boots up at 24 bpp and 2.7 GHz itself! Use this information to
> selectively ignore the VBT provided value.
>
> We can't ignore the VBT eDP bpp altogether, as there are other laptops
> that do require the clamping to be used due to EDID reporting higher bpp
> than the panel can support.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59841
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67950
> Tested-by: Ulf Winkelvos <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: jkp <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> [Jani: stable 3.11 backport]
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> index 3aed1fe..07eb447 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> @@ -1371,6 +1371,26 @@ static void intel_dp_get_config(struct intel_encoder 
> *encoder,
>       }
>  
>       pipe_config->adjusted_mode.flags |= flags;
> +
> +     if (is_edp(intel_dp) && dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp &&
> +         pipe_config->pipe_bpp > dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp) {
> +             /*
> +              * This is a big fat ugly hack.
> +              *
> +              * Some machines in UEFI boot mode provide us a VBT that has 18
> +              * bpp and 1.62 GHz link bandwidth for eDP, which for reasons
> +              * unknown we fail to light up. Yet the same BIOS boots up with
> +              * 24 bpp and 2.7 GHz link. Use the same bpp as the BIOS uses as
> +              * max, not what it tells us to use.
> +              *
> +              * Note: This will still be broken if the eDP panel is not lit
> +              * up by the BIOS, and thus we can't get the mode at module
> +              * load.
> +              */
> +             DRM_DEBUG_KMS("pipe has %d bpp for eDP panel, overriding 
> BIOS-provided max %d bpp\n",
> +                           pipe_config->pipe_bpp, dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp);
> +             dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp = pipe_config->pipe_bpp;
> +     }
>  }
>  
>  static void intel_disable_dp(struct intel_encoder *encoder)
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
>

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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