Re: [PATCH v16 4/4] drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: fix bus formats negotiation for 8 bit modes

[Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>]

Hi Neil,

Any feedback on the other patches?

They look fine to me, but I still need an ack to merge them in 
drm-misc-next.

Cheers,
-Paul


Le jeu., mars 3 2022 at 12:42:02 +0100, Neil Armstrong 
<narmstrong@baylibre.com> a écrit :
> On 03/03/2022 11:40, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> Hi Neil,
>> 
>>> Am 03.03.2022 um 09:35 schrieb Neil Armstrong 
>>> <narmstrong@baylibre.com>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 02/03/2022 23:24, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>>>> Hi Neil,
>>>>> Am 02.03.2022 um 15:34 schrieb Neil Armstrong 
>>>>> <narmstrong@baylibre.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>>> (cross-checked: RGB mode still works if I force 
>>>>>> hdmi->sink_is_hdmi = false)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't understand what's wrong, can you try to make the logic 
>>>>> select MEDIA_BUS_FMT_YUV8_1X24 instead of 
>>>>> DRM_COLOR_FORMAT_YCBCR422 ?
>>>> I have forced hdmi->sink_is_hdmi = false and replaced
>>>>   	/* Default 8bit RGB fallback */
>>>> -	output_fmts[i++] = MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X24;
>>>> +	output_fmts[i++] = MEDIA_BUS_FMT_YUV8_1X24;
>>>> And then screen remains black. MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X24 works.
>>>> (MEDIA_BUS_FMT_VUY8_1X24 doesn't work either).
>>>> So this indicates that YUV conversion is not working properly. 
>>>> Maybe missing some special
>>>> setup.
>>>> What I have to test if it works on a different monitor.
>> 
>> Same effect on a Xiaomi monitor (user manual just telling HDMI1,4 
>> compatible), an
>> older Acer video projector and a Sharp TV set.
>> 
>> The Xiaomi monitor does not say "No signal" but shows a black 
>> screen. The others
>> do not even report any HDMI signals. All work well with 
>> MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X24.
>> 
>> This means the transcoding to YUV does not work properly on the 
>> jz4780 SoC setup.
>> 
>> So it looks as if we have to disable it (at least unless someone 
>> finds a fix).
>> 
>>>> Not that this specific panel
>>>> (a 7 inch waveshare touch with HDMIinput) is buggy and reports YUV 
>>>> capabilities
>>>> but does not handle them...
>>>> On the other hand this panel works on RasPi and OMAP5 (where I 
>>>> admit I do not know in
>>>> which mode).
>>> 
>>> Pretty sure they don't support YUV HDMI output.
>>> 
>>> If you can try on a certified HDMI devices like a TV, it would here 
>>> figuring out where comes the issue.
>> 
>> I am not sure if the Sharp TV is fully certified but would assume...
>> 
>>> 
>>>>> If your CSC is broken, we'll need to disable it on your platform.
>>>> Indeed.
>>>> So it seems as if we need a mechanism to overwrite 
>>>> dw_hdmi_bridge_atomic_get_output_bus_fmts()
>>>> in our ingenic-dw-hdmi platform specialization [1] to always 
>>>> return MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X24.
>>>> Or alternatively set sink_is_hdmi = false there (unfortunately 
>>>> there is no direct access to
>>>> struct dw_hdmi in a specialization drivers).
>>>> Is this already possible or how can it be done?
>>> 
>>> It's not handled yet, but we may add the logic to handle the lack 
>>> of CSC config bit and
>>> add a glue config bit to override this like we already did for CEC.
>>> 
>>> I wrote an initial support to disable CSC (only compile-tested), 
>>> could you try on your platform with setting disable_csc = 1 in your 
>>> dw-hdmi glue code ?
>> 
>> This works!
>> 
>> So how can we get that merged? IMHO your proposal should be before 
>> we add ingenic-dw-hdmi.
>> If you have a version with proper commit message I can add it to the 
>> beginning of my
>> seried and include it in a v17. Or if you get yours merged to 
>> drm-misc/drm-misc-next I
>> can build on top.
> 
> You can add it in your v17 patchset with my authorship and my 
> Signed-off-by tag + yours.
> 
> As commit message something like :
> ====================
> drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: handle unusable or non-configured CSC module
> 
> The dw-hdmi integrates an optional Color Space Conversion feature used
> to handle color-space conversions.
> 
> On some platforms, the CSC isn't built-in or non-functional.
> 
> This adds the necessary code to disable the CSC functionality
> and limit the bus format negotiation to force using the same
> input bus format as the output bus format.
> ====================
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil
> 
>> 
>> BR and thanks,
>> Nikolaus
>> 
>