[PATCH] i915: disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake

From: Jian-Hong Pan
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 05:29:07 EST


From: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On many (all?) the Gemini Lake systems we work with, there is frequent
momentary graphical corruption at the top of the screen, and it seems
that disabling framebuffer compression can avoid this.

The ticket was reported 6 months ago and has already affected a
multitude of users, without any real progress being made. So, lets
disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake until a solution is found.

Buglink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108085
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
index 656e684e7c9a..fc018f3f53a1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
@@ -1278,6 +1278,10 @@ static int intel_sanitize_fbc_option(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
if (!HAS_FBC(dev_priv))
return 0;

+ /* https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108085 */
+ if (IS_GEMINILAKE(dev_priv))
+ return 0;
+
if (IS_BROADWELL(dev_priv) || INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 9)
return 1;

--
2.21.0