[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "drm/radeon/atom: workaround vbios bug in transmitter table on" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Oct 2 15:03:16 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/radeon/atom: workaround vbios bug in transmitter table on

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 5dc729cbc5d7ed7bbe2f84aaf641cd97a3352eb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 10:54:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] drm/radeon/atom: workaround vbios bug in transmitter table on
 rs880 (v2)

commit 91f3a6aaf280294b07c05dfe606e6c27b7ba3c72 upstream.

The OUTPUT_ENABLE action jumps past the point in the coder where
the data_offset is set on certain rs780 cards.  This worked
previously because the OUTPUT_ENABLE action is always called
immediately after the ENABLE action so the data_offset remained
set.  In 6f8bbaf568c7f2c497558bfd04654c0b9841ad57
(drm/radeon/atom: initialize more atom interpretor elements to 0),
we explictly reset data_offset to 0 between atom calls which then
caused this to fail.  The fix is to just skip calling the
OUTPUT_ENABLE action on the problematic chipsets.  The ENABLE
action does the same thing and more.  Ultimately, we could
probably drop the OUTPUT_ENABLE action all together on DCE3
asics.

fixes:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60791

v2: only rs880 seems to be affected

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
index 66ecc38..64bc2bd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
@@ -1425,8 +1425,12 @@ radeon_atom_encoder_dpms_dig(struct drm_encoder *encoder, int mode)
 			atombios_dig_encoder_setup(encoder, ATOM_ENABLE, 0);
 			atombios_dig_transmitter_setup(encoder, ATOM_TRANSMITTER_ACTION_SETUP, 0, 0);
 			atombios_dig_transmitter_setup(encoder, ATOM_TRANSMITTER_ACTION_ENABLE, 0, 0);
-			/* some early dce3.2 boards have a bug in their transmitter control table */
-			if ((rdev->family != CHIP_RV710) && (rdev->family != CHIP_RV730))
+			/* some dce3.x boards have a bug in their transmitter control table.
+			 * ACTION_ENABLE_OUTPUT can probably be dropped since ACTION_ENABLE
+			 * does the same thing and more.
+			 */
+			if ((rdev->family != CHIP_RV710) && (rdev->family != CHIP_RV730) &&
+			    (rdev->family != CHIP_RS880))
 				atombios_dig_transmitter_setup(encoder, ATOM_TRANSMITTER_ACTION_ENABLE_OUTPUT, 0, 0);
 		}
 		if (ENCODER_MODE_IS_DP(atombios_get_encoder_mode(encoder)) && connector) {
--
1.8.3.2





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