[UBUNTU (3.19) PATCH 0/4] i915 to call HDA on HDMI hotplug

Anthony Wong anthony.wong at canonical.com
Wed Sep 2 11:44:32 UTC 2015


On 2 September 2015 at 17:23, David Henningsson <
david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 2015-09-01 21:38, Brad Figg wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 12:04:05PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
>>
>>> This is a patch set fixing a long-standing bug for some Haswell,
>>> Broadwell and most Skylake machines.
>>>
>>> When the HDA audio controller is in D3, a hotplug event (i e, HDMI or
>>> DisplayPort being plugged in) fails to wake up the audio side so it never
>>> registers that something has happened.
>>>
>>> By having the i915 driver call directly into the hda driver, the HDA
>>> driver is always notified that an HDMI hotplug event has happened.
>>>
>>> I've been trying to get this through upstream, but it has been slower
>>> than usual due to it touching both the i915 and HDA subsystems, and ideally
>>> I wanted it in there first, but I don't think OEM wants to miss another SRU
>>> cycle. So this is on its way in upstream, but not there yet. The patches
>>> here are based on v5 of my patch set, and v4 were both reviewed by Jani
>>> Nikula and Takashi Iwai.
>>>
>>> Now, I've tested the upstream version, but I've just backported this to
>>> 3.19 without any testing. I could use Timo's assistance here so we
>>> coordinate testing this with other i915 changes for the next SRU cycle. And
>>> I could use Timo's help to make sure this applies equally to i915 and
>>> i915_bpo.
>>>
>>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1490895
>>>
>> I want to see some positive test results in the bug before I'm going to
>> take this.
>>
>
> Me too. :-)
>
> Once Timo has a finished build (and I've provided him with a version that
> actually compiles, *ahem*), could Anthony help assign people to help us
> test it? It would be very nice if we could have this tested on more than
> one of (Skylake / Broadwell / Haswell).
>
> @Anthony, if you look at the duplicates for bug 1490895 (e g, 1383997) I
> think you'll quickly understand what all of this is about


Hi Ara,

We need your team's help again to test a fix of a long-standing hdmi audio
hotplug issue on Skylake, Broadwell and Haswell. We hope this fix can get
in the next SRU kernel, so the test need to be done before Friday, do you
have the resources to help with this?

These are the bugs for your reference:
Master bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1490895
Dell BDW: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kittyhawk/+bug/1321986
Dell HSW: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1383997,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1393701\
HP:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/1379180
Lenovo:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/+bug/1433891

Thanks,
Anthony
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