Re: [PATCH 00/12] drm/amd: Switch over to struct drm_edid

["Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>]

Hi Melissa,

On 2024-08-19 11:31:44+0000, Melissa Wen wrote:
> On 08/18, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > The AMD DRM drivers use 'struct edid', raw pointers and even custom
> > structs to represent EDID data.
> > Uniformly switch to the safe and recommended "struct drm_edid".
> > 
> > Some uses of "struct edid" are left because some ad-hoc parsing is still
> > being done inside the drivers.
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> It's great to see more people working on removing raw edid from amd
> display driver in favor of drm_edid.
> 
> I glanced over your series and I found it similar to my recent proposal
> to migrate amdgpu_dm_connector from edid to drm_edid. You can find the
> v5 of this work here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/20240807203207.2830-1-mwen@igalia.com/

thanks for the pointer.

> I believe it's more productive if we can join efforts and improve that
> proposal instead of duplicating work. I'll look at your patches more
> carefully this week. If you can review my work, I'd be happy to hear
> your feedback too.

Indeed. I'll take a look at your patches.
Let's see how they can be combined.

> Thanks,
> 
> Melissa
> 
> > 
> > The patch "drm/amd/display: Switch amdgpu_dm_connector to struct drm_edid"
> > will conflict with my backlight quirk series [0].
> > The conflict will result in an obvious and easy to fix build failure.
> > 
> > Patches 1 and 2 delete some dead code.
> > Patches 3 to 6 constify some arguments and shuffle around some code.
> > The remaining patches perform the actual conversion in steps.
> > 
> > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240818-amdgpu-min-backlight-quirk-v5-0-b6c0ead0c73d@weissschuh.net/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
> > ---
> > Thomas Weißschuh (12):
> >       drm/amd/display: remove spurious definition for dm_helpers_get_sbios_edid()
> >       drm/amd/display: Remove EDID members of ddc_service
> >       drm/edid: constify argument of drm_edid_is_valid()
> >       drm/amd/display: Simplify raw_edid handling in dm_helpers_parse_edid_caps()
> >       drm/amd/display: Constify raw_edid handling in dm_helpers_parse_edid_caps()
> >       drm/amd/display: Constify 'struct edid' in parsing functions
> >       drm/amd/display: Use struct edid in dc_link_add_remote_sink()
> >       drm/amdgpu: Switch amdgpu_connector to struct drm_edid
> >       drm/amd/display: Switch amdgpu_dm_connector to struct drm_edid
> >       drm/edid: add a helper to compare two EDIDs
> >       drm/amd/display: Switch dc_sink to struct drm_edid
> >       drm/amd/display: Switch dc_link_add_remote_sink() to struct drm_edid
> > 
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_connectors.c     | 56 ++++++++-------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_mode.h           |  3 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v10_0.c             |  4 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v11_0.c             |  4 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v6_0.c              |  4 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v8_0.c              |  4 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c  | 84 +++++++++++-----------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.h  |  5 +-
> >  .../drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c  | 34 +++++----
> >  .../amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_mst_types.c    | 28 ++++----
> >  .../gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_exports.c  |  5 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dc.h                |  8 +--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dc_ddc_types.h      |  7 --
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dc_types.h          |  5 --
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dm_helpers.h        |  4 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/inc/link.h          |  3 +-
> >  .../gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/link/link_detection.c   | 42 ++++-------
> >  .../gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/link/link_detection.h   |  3 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c                         | 20 +++++-
> >  include/drm/drm_edid.h                             |  3 +-
> >  20 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)
> > ---
> > base-commit: 207565ee2594ac47261cdfc8a5048f4dc322c878
> > change-id: 20240615-amdgpu-drm_edid-32d969dfb899
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > -- 
> > Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
> >