Re: Apple Thunderbolt Display chaining

[Mika Westerberg]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 10:51:41AM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Both included in-line.
> 
> This is cold boot with the chain plugged in. I've re-added the dbg to
> print the link number, and I've included your path discovery debugs.
> Boot with chain plugged in, wait for it to settle, unplug and replug.
> First head in the chain fails with :
> 
> [   65.778129] [drm:radeon_dp_link_train [radeon]] *ERROR* displayport link status failed
> [   65.778158] [drm:radeon_dp_link_train [radeon]] *ERROR* clock recovery failed

Thanks for the logs! 

The DP tunnels look pretty much the same except that the Apple EFI CM
seems to assign 7 buffers for the AUX RX path first hop whereas we
always use 1 buffer. Not sure if that really makes a difference and we
could try to use the same number but first, I realized that the PCI
resource allocation seems not to work properly.

Can you disable PCIe tunneling (if you use Ubuntu/Fedora or similar
there is the "Thunderbolt -> Direct Access" switch that you can turn
off) and try again? Please also take 'sudo lspci -vv' for the resulting
topology. I suspect this might also affect the other issues (the
timeouts) you are seeing. Note this makes the peripherals connected to
the monitors unusable too.