[diwic] hdmi audio disabled in the radeon driver by default? investigate why?

[Seth Forshee]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 05:29:54PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> >But overall it seems that we have two options, each of which breaks
> >things for some people but also has a workaround. Right now we have HDMI
> >audio disabled, and the workaround to enable it is to set
> >radeon.audio=1. On the other side we could make radeon.audio=1 the
> >default, and those who see problems can flip it to 0. People who want
> >HDMI audio but get corrupted video when it's enabled are out of luck
> >either way until the bug is fixed.
> >
> >Seems to me the logical thing to do is to select the default that works
> >for the largest number of users, and instruct the rest to use the
> >appropriate workaround (probably it should be included in the release
> >notes). Do we have enough information to determine which default breaks
> >the least number of systems?
> 
> Not quite. We have 14 users marking as being affected by bug 864735,
> but how many of those that would see video issues if they turned
> radeon.audio, we don't know.
> 
> I think the rationale is that video output is more important than
> audio output, and therefore worth sacrificing for overall video
> stability.

Yeah, I suppose there's some sense to that argument. It's easeir to
apply a workaround when your video works :)

I guess if we're fairly certain there are still systems whose video is
corrupted with HDMI audio enabled, the most sensible thing to do is
probably to put the workaround to enable audio in the release notes.

Seth