[PATCH 00/10] extract dp helper functions

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 06:30:01 PDT 2012


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've frustrated myself the last few days yelling at our link training code.
> Comparing the i915 code to radeon and nouveau I've noticed the lack of a nice
> set of dp helper functions. So I've started to extract a few.
>
> There's lots more that we can do I think (link configuration selection, the i2c
> over aux retry stuff which diverges already between i915 and radeon, maybe more
> higher level parts of the training sequence). But there the drivers diverge
> quite a bit (e.g. the link configuration is driver by different things in each
> driver: coded link bw from the dp spec, link clock or required bw vs avialable
> bw), so that's more work and probably best done when reworking these functions
> for other reasons.
>
> I've also tried to put the new helpers a bit to use in nouveau, but due to lack
> of hw that part is untested.
>
> Comments and testing highly welcome.

Looks good to me.  Other than the minor change required in patch7,
this series is:

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>

>
> Yours, Daniel
>
> Daniel Vetter (10):
>   drm: rename drm_dp_i2c_helper.c to drm_dp_helper.c
>   drm: dp helper: extract drm_dp_channel_eq_ok
>   drm: dp helper: extract drm_dp_clock_recovery_ok
>   drm/nouveau: use the cr_ok/chanel_eq_ok helpers
>   drm: extract helpers to compute new training values from sink request
>   drm/nouveau: use dp link train request helper
>   drm: extract dp link train delay functions from radeon
>   drm/i915: use the new dp train delay helpers
>   drm: extract dp link bw helpers
>   drm: extract drm_dp_max_lane_count helper
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile             |   2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c      | 328 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_i2c_helper.c  | 208 ----------------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c      |  98 ++---------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dp.c |  35 +---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_dp.c | 147 ++--------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_mode.h |   2 +-
>  include/drm/drm_dp_helper.h          |  31 ++++
>  8 files changed, 400 insertions(+), 451 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_i2c_helper.c
>
> --
> 1.7.11.4
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