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2020-10-23Merge tag 'drm-next-2020-10-23' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drmLinus Torvalds
Pull more drm fixes from Dave Airlie: "This should be the last round of things for rc1, a bunch of i915 fixes, some amdgpu, more font OOB fixes and one ttm fix just found reading code: fbcon/fonts: - Two patches to prevent OOB access ttm: - fix for evicition value range check amdgpu: - Sienna Cichlid fixes - MST manager resource leak fix - GPU reset fix amdkfd: - Luxmark fix for Navi1x i915: - Tweak initial DPCD backlight.enabled value (Sean) - Initialize reserved MOCS indices (Ayaz) - Mark initial fb obj as WT on eLLC machines to avoid rcu lockup (Ville) - Support parsing of oversize batches (Chris) - Delay execlists processing for TGL (Chris) - Use the active reference on the vma during error capture (Chris) - Widen CSB pointer (Chris) - Wait for CSB entries on TGL (Chris) - Fix unwind for scratch page allocation (Chris) - Exclude low patches of stolen memory (Chris) - Force VT'd workarounds when running as a guest OS (Chris) - Drop runtime-pm assert from vpgu io accessors (Chris)" * tag 'drm-next-2020-10-23' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm: (31 commits) drm/amdgpu: correct the cu and rb info for sienna cichlid drm/amd/pm: remove the average clock value in sysfs drm/amd/pm: fix pp_dpm_fclk Revert drm/amdgpu: disable sienna chichlid UMC RAS drm/amd/pm: fix pcie information for sienna cichlid drm/amdkfd: Use same SQ prefetch setting as amdgpu drm/amd/swsmu: correct wrong feature bit mapping drm/amd/psp: Fix sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename drm/amd/display: Avoid MST manager resource leak. drm/amd/display: Revert "drm/amd/display: Fix a list corruption" drm/amdgpu: update golden setting for sienna_cichlid drm/amd/swsmu: add missing feature map for sienna_cichlid drm/amdgpu: correct the gpu reset handling for job != NULL case drm/amdgpu: add rlc iram and dram firmware support drm/amdgpu: add function to program pbb mode for sienna cichlid drm/i915: Drop runtime-pm assert from vgpu io accessors drm/i915: Force VT'd workarounds when running as a guest OS drm/i915: Exclude low pages (128KiB) of stolen from use drm/i915/gt: Onion unwind for scratch page allocation failure drm/ttm: fix eviction valuable range check. ...
2020-10-19docs: fb: Add font_6x8 to available built-in fontsPeilin Ye
Recently we added a new 6x8 font in commit e2028c8e6bf9 ("lib/fonts: add font 6x8 for OLED display"). Add its name to the "compiled-in fonts" list. Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201018205401.698242-1-yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
2020-10-15Merge tag 'drm-next-2020-10-15' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drmLinus Torvalds
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie: "Not a major amount of change, the i915 trees got split into display and gt trees to better facilitate higher level review, and there's a major refactoring of i915 GEM locking to use more core kernel concepts (like ww-mutexes). msm gets per-process pagetables, older AMD SI cards get DC support, nouveau got a bump in displayport support with common code extraction from i915. Outside of drm this contains a couple of patches for hexint moduleparams which you've acked, and a virtio common code tree that you should also get via it's regular path. New driver: - Cadence MHDP8546 DisplayPort bridge driver core: - cross-driver scatterlist cleanups - devm_drm conversions - remove drm_dev_init - devm_drm_dev_alloc conversion ttm: - lots of refactoring and cleanups bridges: - chained bridge support in more drivers panel: - misc new panels scheduler: - cleanup priority levels displayport: - refactor i915 code into helpers for nouveau i915: - split into display and GT trees - WW locking refactoring in GEM - execbuf2 extension mechanism - syncobj timeline support - GEN 12 HOBL display powersaving - Rocket Lake display additions - Disable FBC on Tigerlake - Tigerlake Type-C + DP improvements - Hotplug interrupt refactoring amdgpu: - Sienna Cichlid updates - Navy Flounder updates - DCE6 (SI) support for DC - Plane rotation enabled - TMZ state info ioctl - PCIe DPC recovery support - DC interrupt handling refactor - OLED panel fixes amdkfd: - add SMI events for thermal throttling - SMI interface events ioctl update - process eviction counters radeon: - move to dma_ for allocations - expose sclk via sysfs msm: - DSI support for sm8150/sm8250 - per-process GPU pagetable support - Displayport support mediatek: - move HDMI phy driver to PHY - convert mtk-dpi to bridge API - disable mt2701 tmds tegra: - bridge support exynos: - misc cleanups vc4: - dual display cleanups ast: - cleanups gma500: - conversion to GPIOd API hisilicon: - misc reworks ingenic: - clock handling and format improvements mcde: - DSI support mgag200: - desktop g200 support mxsfb: - i.MX7 + i.MX8M - alpha plane support panfrost: - devfreq support - amlogic SoC support ps8640: - EDID from eDP retrieval tidss: - AM65xx YUV workaround virtio: - virtio-gpu exported resources rcar-du: - R8A7742, R8A774E1 and R8A77961 support - YUV planar format fixes - non-visible plane handling - VSP device reference count fix - Kconfig fix to avoid displaying disabled options in .config" * tag 'drm-next-2020-10-15' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm: (1494 commits) drm/ingenic: Fix bad revert drm/amdgpu: Fix invalid number of character '{' in amdgpu_acpi_init drm/amdgpu: Remove warning for virtual_display drm/amdgpu: kfd_initialized can be static drm/amd/pm: setup APU dpm clock table in SMU HW initialization drm/amdgpu: prevent spurious warning drm/amdgpu/swsmu: fix ARC build errors drm/amd/display: Fix OPTC_DATA_FORMAT programming drm/amd/display: Don't allow pstate if no support in blank drm/panfrost: increase readl_relaxed_poll_timeout values MAINTAINERS: Update entry for st7703 driver after the rename Revert "gpu/drm: ingenic: Add option to mmap GEM buffers cached" drm/amd/display: HDMI remote sink need mode validation for Linux drm/amd/display: Change to correct unit on audio rate drm/amd/display: Avoid set zero in the requested clk drm/amdgpu: align frag_end to covered address space drm/amdgpu: fix NULL pointer dereference for Renoir drm/vmwgfx: fix regression in thp code due to ttm init refactor. drm/amdgpu/swsmu: add interrupt work handler for smu11 parts drm/amdgpu/swsmu: add interrupt work function ...
2020-09-24docs: fb: Remove framebuffer scrollback boot optionBhaskar Chowdhury
In commit 50145474f6ef ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not updated. Properly update the documentation by removing the option that is no longer present, and update the section numbering because of the removal. Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/436cc046a8ff9cf2a467b633527db77dc7c7de19.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-08docs: fb: Correcting the location of FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE option.Bilal Wasim
fbcon doc mentions FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE option to be under Device Drivers->Graphics Support->Frame buffer Devices-> Console display driver support->Framebuffer Console Support, while its under Device Drivers->Graphics Support-> Console display driver support->Framebuffer Console Support. Correcting it in the docs. Signed-off-by: Bilal Wasim <bilalwasim676@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200824145155.42502-1-bilalwasim676@gmail.com
2020-01-03fbdev: fbmem: allow overriding the number of bootup logosPeter Rosin
Probably most useful if you want no logo at all, or if you only want one logo regardless of how many CPU cores you have. Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190827110854.12574-3-peda@axentia.se
2020-01-03fbdev: fix numbering of fbcon optionsPeter Rosin
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count... One! Two! Five! Fixes: efb985f6b265 ("[PATCH] fbcon: Console Rotation - Add framebuffer console documentation") Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190827110854.12574-2-peda@axentia.se
2019-07-15docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book. Move them to their right place. Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: console.txt: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert this small file to ReST in preparation for adding it to the driver-api book. While this is not part of the driver-api book, mark it as :orphan:, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2019-06-20docs: fb: Add TER16x32 to the available font namesTakashi Iwai
The new font is available since recently. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14docs: fb: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Also, removed the Maintained by, as requested by Geert. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>