[PATCH 1/2] drm/eld: Add drm_eld_set_port_id() helper

From: Kai Vehmanen

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 11:24:49 EST


The ELD baseline block reserves bytes 8..15 for a 64-bit Port_ID that
identifies the source port of the audio endpoint. drm_edid_to_eld()
leaves the field zero, and no driver fills it in, so it carries no
information.

When two identical monitors are connected, their ELDs are then
byte-identical, and userspace has no passive way to tell which HDMI/DP
PCM belongs to which DRM connector. The only workaround is to toggle
the connector audio property and watch which ELD goes away, which
disrupts the endpoint.

Add a helper that drivers can use to fill in Port_ID with a common
layout:

bits 63:48 - PCI domain of the DRM device
bits 47:32 - PCI bus/device/function of the DRM device
bits 31:0 - DRM connector object ID

Userspace can read the connector object ID directly from KMS, and the
PCI address tells GPUs apart in multi-GPU systems. For non-PCI devices
the upper half is left zero.

The split between a 16-bit PCI BDF in the upper half and a per-device
display identifier in the lower half follows the Port_ID layout
documented for the AMD Azalia sink info registers in dce_audio.c.

Signed-off-by: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_eld.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/drm/drm_eld.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_eld.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_eld.c
index c0428d07de53..baebece7b4ed 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_eld.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_eld.c
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
*/

#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/pci.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>

+#include <drm/drm_connector.h>
+#include <drm/drm_device.h>
#include <drm/drm_edid.h>
#include <drm/drm_eld.h>

@@ -55,3 +59,41 @@ int drm_eld_sad_set(u8 *eld, int sad_index, const struct cea_sad *cta_sad)
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_eld_sad_set);
+
+/**
+ * drm_eld_set_port_id - set the ELD Port_ID for a connector
+ * @eld: ELD buffer
+ * @connector: connector the ELD belongs to
+ *
+ * drm_edid_to_eld() leaves the 64-bit Port_ID field of the ELD baseline
+ * block zero. Drivers can use this helper to fill it in with a value
+ * that identifies the audio endpoint, so that userspace can associate an
+ * ELD, and the PCM device it belongs to, with a DRM connector, even when
+ * identical sinks are connected to multiple outputs.
+ *
+ * The Port_ID is stored in little-endian byte order, with the layout:
+ *
+ * - bits 63:48 - PCI domain of the DRM device, truncated to 16 bits
+ * - bits 47:32 - PCI bus/device/function of the DRM device
+ * - bits 31:0 - DRM connector object ID
+ *
+ * For non-PCI devices bits 63:32 are zero.
+ *
+ * The connector object ID is only stable for the lifetime of the
+ * connector, so userspace must look it up at runtime, and not store it.
+ */
+void drm_eld_set_port_id(u8 *eld, const struct drm_connector *connector)
+{
+ struct device *dev = connector->dev->dev;
+ u64 port_id = connector->base.id;
+
+ if (dev && dev_is_pci(dev)) {
+ struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
+
+ port_id |= (u64)(pci_domain_nr(pdev->bus) & 0xffff) << 48 |
+ (u64)pci_dev_id(pdev) << 32;
+ }
+
+ put_unaligned_le64(port_id, &eld[DRM_ELD_PORT_ID]);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_eld_set_port_id);
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_eld.h b/include/drm/drm_eld.h
index 0a88d10b28b0..de0478720721 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_eld.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_eld.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>

struct cea_sad;
+struct drm_connector;

/* ELD Header Block */
#define DRM_ELD_HEADER_BLOCK_SIZE 4
@@ -80,6 +81,8 @@ static inline int drm_eld_mnl(const u8 *eld)
int drm_eld_sad_get(const u8 *eld, int sad_index, struct cea_sad *cta_sad);
int drm_eld_sad_set(u8 *eld, int sad_index, const struct cea_sad *cta_sad);

+void drm_eld_set_port_id(u8 *eld, const struct drm_connector *connector);
+
/**
* drm_eld_sad - Get ELD SAD structures.
* @eld: pointer to an eld memory structure with sad_count set
--
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