Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:01:58 +0530 | | From | David John <> | | Subject | Fix For Korg Bug #14897 (GM45 Display Flicker) |
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Hi Jesse, Yakui,
Sorry for the delay, but I was busy with other work last week. I got some time to look into this on Monday and the problem seems to be this:
With the external display connected on VGA, intel_update_watermarks calls update_wm a couple of times in sequence with the following params:
1) planea_clock = 148500 planeb_clock = 0, sr_hdisplay=1920 (VGA) 2) planea_clock = 148500 planeb_clock = 72330, sr_hdisplay=1366 (LVDS)
In update_wm (in my case g4x_update_wm), for 1) sr_entries is calculated correctly and self refresh is enabled. For 2) sr_entries remains zero and the SR watermark is set as such. However, SR remains active. On mode switch to console, this causes a FIFO underrun and the display flicker.
The solution that I see is to simply disable SR if more than one pipe is enabled. I've written a patch that does this. Also another point is that the G45 docs state that a particular sequence has to be followed if SR is to be used when only one pipe is active for Cantiga (Pg 30, G45 Vol 3). I didn't see any code doing this, but I did not see any untoward behaviour either, with only my patch applied.
I've updated the patch to fix i965 and i9xx as I assume the same problem will occur on those chipsets as well, but this has _not_been tested as I don't have the relevant platforms.
Patch follows this mail. Please let me know if any changes are required.
The VGA output powering-on on mode change mentioned in my bug report is a separate DRM bug for which I will send a patch later.
Regards, David.
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