Nouveau - Aug 2022 - [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: OSI: Remove Linux-Dell-Video _OSI string

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 2:51 AM Mario Limonciello
<mario.limonciello at amd.com> wrote:
>
> This string was introduced because drivers for NVIDIA hardware
> had bugs supporting RTD3 in the past.  Thoes bugs have been fixed
> by commit 5775b843a619 ("PCI: Restore config space on runtime resume
> despite being unbound"). so vendors shouldn't be using this string
> to modify ASL anymore.
Add some backgrounds on what happened.

Before proprietary NVIDIA driver supports RTD3, Ubuntu has a mechanism
that can switch PRIME on and off, though it requires to logout/login
to make the library switch happen.
When the PRIME is off, the mechanism unload NVIDIA driver and put the
device to D3cold, but GPU never came back to D0 again. So ODM use the
_OSI to expose an old _DSM method to switch the power on/off.

The issue is fixed by the said commit so we can discard the workaround now.

Kai-Heng
>
> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at amd.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/osi.c | 9 ---------
>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osi.c b/drivers/acpi/osi.c
> index 9f6853809138..c2f6b2f553d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/osi.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/osi.c
> @@ -44,15 +44,6 @@ osi_setup_entries[OSI_STRING_ENTRIES_MAX] __initdata = {
>         {"Processor Device", true},
>         {"3.0 _SCP Extensions", true},
>         {"Processor Aggregator Device", true},
> -       /*
> -        * Linux-Dell-Video is used by BIOS to disable RTD3 for NVidia
graphics
> -        * cards as RTD3 is not supported by drivers now.  Systems with
NVidia
> -        * cards will hang without RTD3 disabled.
> -        *
> -        * Once NVidia drivers officially support RTD3, this _OSI strings
can
> -        * be removed if both new and old graphics cards are supported.
> -        */
> -       {"Linux-Dell-Video", true},
>         /*
>          * Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio is used by BIOS to power on
NVidia's HDMI
>          * audio device which is turned off for power-saving in Windows OS.
> --
> 2.34.1
>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 09:17
> To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario.Limonciello at amd.com>
> Cc: rafael at kernel.org; Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>;
> nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org; hdegoede at redhat.com;
> ddadap at nvidia.com; Dell.Client.Kernel at dell.com; kherbst at
redhat.com;
> Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>; linux-acpi at vger.kernel.org;
linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: OSI: Remove Linux-Dell-Video _OSI string
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 2:51 AM Mario Limonciello
> <mario.limonciello at amd.com> wrote:
> >
> > This string was introduced because drivers for NVIDIA hardware
> > had bugs supporting RTD3 in the past.  Thoes bugs have been fixed
> > by commit 5775b843a619 ("PCI: Restore config space on runtime
resume
> > despite being unbound"). so vendors shouldn't be using this
string
> > to modify ASL anymore.
> 
> Add some backgrounds on what happened.
> 
> Before proprietary NVIDIA driver supports RTD3, Ubuntu has a mechanism
> that can switch PRIME on and off, though it requires to logout/login
> to make the library switch happen.
> When the PRIME is off, the mechanism unload NVIDIA driver and put the
> device to D3cold, but GPU never came back to D0 again. So ODM use the
> _OSI to expose an old _DSM method to switch the power on/off.
> 
> The issue is fixed by the said commit so we can discard the workaround now.
> 
Thanks for that.  If this series needs to spin I'll roll that into the
commit message.
Otherwise perhaps Rafael can pick up some of it if he thinks it makes sense to
include.
> Kai-Heng
> 
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at amd.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/acpi/osi.c | 9 ---------
> >  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osi.c b/drivers/acpi/osi.c
> > index 9f6853809138..c2f6b2f553d9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/osi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/osi.c
> > @@ -44,15 +44,6 @@ osi_setup_entries[OSI_STRING_ENTRIES_MAX]
> __initdata = {
> >         {"Processor Device", true},
> >         {"3.0 _SCP Extensions", true},
> >         {"Processor Aggregator Device", true},
> > -       /*
> > -        * Linux-Dell-Video is used by BIOS to disable RTD3 for NVidia
graphics
> > -        * cards as RTD3 is not supported by drivers now.  Systems
with NVidia
> > -        * cards will hang without RTD3 disabled.
> > -        *
> > -        * Once NVidia drivers officially support RTD3, this _OSI
strings can
> > -        * be removed if both new and old graphics cards are
supported.
> > -        */
> > -       {"Linux-Dell-Video", true},
> >         /*
> >          * Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio is used by BIOS to power on
NVidia's
> HDMI
> >          * audio device which is turned off for power-saving in
Windows OS.
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >