Re: [Freedreno] [RFC PATCH 00/13] drm/msm: Add Display Stream Compression Support

[Vinod Koul]

On 27-05-21, 16:30, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 8:00 AM Jeffrey Hugo <jeffrey.l.hugo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:46 PM Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Frankly, I don't like the MSM ACPI solution that I've seen on the laptops.
> > The ACPI assumes the entire MDSS (including DSI parts) and GPU is one
> > device, and ultimately handled by one driver.  That driver needs to
> > get a value from UEFI (set by the bootloader) that is the "panel id".
> > Then the driver calls into ACPI (I think its _ROM, but I might be
> > mistaken, doing this from memory) with that id.  It gets back a binary
> > blob which is mostly an xml file (format is publicly documented) that
> > contains the panel timings and such.
> 
> tbh, I kinda suspect that having a single "gpu" device (which also
> includes venus, in addition to display, IIRC) in the ACPI tables is a
> windowsism, trying to make things look to userspace like a single "GPU
> card" in the x86 world.. but either way, I think the ACPI tables on
> the windows arm laptops which use dsi->bridge->edp is too much of a
> lost cause to even consider here.  Possibly ACPI boot on these devices
> would be more feasible on newer devices which have direct eDP out of
> the SoC without requiring external bridge/panel glue.

yeah that is always a very different world. although it might make sense
to use information in tables and try to deduce information about the
system can be helpful...

> I'd worry more about what makes sense in a DT world, when it comes to
> DT bindings.

And do you have thoughts on that..?

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~Vinod