gma-display_probing: Only check display type on DVI-I

On DVI-I connectors the DDC is shared between the analog and digital
parts. To decide which path to take we checked the digital input bit
of the EDID. We did this overeagerly for all ports, which broke com-
patibility with DP adapters (the DP realm is very complex and we are
supposed to discover the whole downstream hierarchie, which obviously
would be overkill).

Change-Id: Ifc53e8ab985695e6e4ff1d42659826710a50eae9
Signed-off-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/20135
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Felix Held <felix-coreboot@felixheld.de>
2 files changed
tree: 68777156972175b157b5fe279ac26ac03b24ac41
  1. common/
  2. configs/
  3. gfxtest/
  4. .gitignore
  5. COPYING
  6. Makefile
  7. Makefile.inc
  8. README.md
  9. TODO
README.md

libgfxinit

libgfxinit is a graphics initialization (aka modesetting) library for embedded environments. It currently supports only Intel hardware, more specifically the Intel Core processor line.

It can query and set up most kinds of displays based on their EDID information. You can, however, also specify particular mode lines.

libgfxinit is written in SPARK, an Ada subset with formal verifica- tion aspects. Absence of runtime errors can be proved automatically with SPARK GPL 2016.

Building on Linux

Prerequisites

For compilation, the GNAT Ada compiler is required. Usual package names in Linux distributions are gcc-ada and gnat.

Grab the Sources

You'll need libhwbase and libgfxinit. Best is to clone the reposi- tories into a common parent directory (this way libgfxinit will know where to find libhwbase).

$ mkdir gfxfun && cd gfxfun
$ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/p/libhwbase.git
$ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/p/libgfxinit.git

Configure and Install libhwbase

Both libraries are currently configured by hand-written config files. You can either write your own .config, link one of the shipped files in configs/, e.g.:

$ ln -s configs/linux libhwbase/.config

or overwrite the config filename by specifying cnf=<configfile> on the make command line.

Let‘s install libhwbase. We’ll need configs/linux to build regular Linux executables:

$ cd libhwbase
$ make cnf=configs/linux install

By default this installs into a new subdirectory dest. You can however overwrite this decision by specifying DESTDIR=.

Build libgfxinit/gfx_test

libgfxinit is configured and installed in the same manner as de- scribed above. You will have to select a configuration matching your hardware.

The makefile knows an additional target gfx_test to build a small Linux test application:

$ cd ../libgfxinit
$ make cnf=configs/sandybridge gfx_test

The resulting binary is build/gfx_test.

Testing libgfxinit on Linux

In its current state gfx_test doesn't know how to set up a frame- buffer. It just assumes that enough memory is mapped. This is known to work well, after running the VBIOS but before the Linux driver i915 took over (e.g. when booting with nomodeset in the kernel command line or with i915 blacklisted). After running i915 it only works by chance.

When running gfx_test (as root), it will access the graphics hard- ware through the sysfs PCI interface. The path is

/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/

for all supported platforms.

If you chose the right config above, you should be presented with a nice test image. However, gfx_test is one-way only: The graphics hardware will stay in this state, until another driver takes over.