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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2013-02-20 17:46:25 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2013-02-20 17:54:13 +1000
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Merge branch 'drm-nouveau-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6 into drm-next
Nothing terribly exciting in here probably: - reworked thermal stuff from mupuf/I, has a chance of possibly working well enough when we get to being able to reclock.. - driver will report mmio access faults on chipsets where it's supported - will now sleep waiting on fences on nv84+ rather than polling - some cleanup of the internal fencing, looking towards sli/dmabuf sync - initial support for anx9805 dp/tmds encoder - nv50+ display fixes related to the above, and also might fix a few other issues - nicer error reporting (will log process names with channel errors) - various other random fixes * 'drm-nouveau-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6: (87 commits) nouveau: ACPI support depends on X86 and X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES drm/nouveau/i2c: add support for ddc/aux, and dp link training on anx9805 drm/nv50: initial kms support for off-chip TMDS/DP encoders drm/nv50-/disp: initial supervisor support for off-chip encoders drm/nv50-/disp: initial work towards supporting external encoders drm/nv50-/kms: remove unnecessary wait-for-completion points drm/nv50-/disp: move DP link training to core and train from supervisor drm/nv50-/disp: handle supervisor tasks from workqueue drm/nouveau/i2c: create proper chipset-specific class implementations drm/nv50-/disp: 0x0000 is a valid udisp config value drm/nv50/devinit: reverse the logic for running encoder init scripts drm/nouveau/bios: store a type/mask hash in parsed dcb data drm/nouveau/i2c: extend type to 16-bits, add lookup-by-type function drm/nouveau/i2c: aux channels not necessarily on nvio drm/nouveau/i2c: fix a bit of a thinko in nv_wri2cr helper functions drm/nouveau/bios: parse external transmitter type if off-chip drm/nouveau: store i2c port pointer directly in nouveau_encoder drm/nouveau/i2c: handle i2c/aux mux outside of port lookup function drm/nv50/graph: avoid touching 400724, it doesn't exist drm/nouveau: Fix DPMS 1 on G4 Snowball, from snow white to coal black. ...
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+Kernel driver nouveau
+===================
+
+Supported chips:
+* NV43+
+
+Authors: Martin Peres (mupuf) <martin.peres@labri.fr>
+
+Description
+---------
+
+This driver allows to read the GPU core temperature, drive the GPU fan and
+set temperature alarms.
+
+Currently, due to the absence of in-kernel API to access HWMON drivers, Nouveau
+cannot access any of the i2c external monitoring chips it may find. If you
+have one of those, temperature and/or fan management through Nouveau's HWMON
+interface is likely not to work. This document may then not cover your situation
+entirely.
+
+Temperature management
+--------------------
+
+Temperature is exposed under as a read-only HWMON attribute temp1_input.
+
+In order to protect the GPU from overheating, Nouveau supports 4 configurable
+temperature thresholds:
+
+ * Fan_boost: Fan speed is set to 100% when reaching this temperature;
+ * Downclock: The GPU will be downclocked to reduce its power dissipation;
+ * Critical: The GPU is put on hold to further lower power dissipation;
+ * Shutdown: Shut the computer down to protect your GPU.
+
+WARNING: Some of these thresholds may not be used by Nouveau depending
+on your chipset.
+
+The default value for these thresholds comes from the GPU's vbios. These
+thresholds can be configured thanks to the following HWMON attributes:
+
+ * Fan_boost: temp1_auto_point1_temp and temp1_auto_point1_temp_hyst;
+ * Downclock: temp1_max and temp1_max_hyst;
+ * Critical: temp1_crit and temp1_crit_hyst;
+ * Shutdown: temp1_emergency and temp1_emergency_hyst.
+
+NOTE: Remember that the values are stored as milli degrees Celcius. Don't forget
+to multiply!
+
+Fan management
+------------
+
+Not all cards have a drivable fan. If you do, then the following HWMON
+attributes should be available:
+
+ * pwm1_enable: Current fan management mode (NONE, MANUAL or AUTO);
+ * pwm1: Current PWM value (power percentage);
+ * pwm1_min: The minimum PWM speed allowed;
+ * pwm1_max: The maximum PWM speed allowed (bypassed when hitting Fan_boost);
+
+You may also have the following attribute:
+
+ * fan1_input: Speed in RPM of your fan.
+
+Your fan can be driven in different modes:
+
+ * 0: The fan is left untouched;
+ * 1: The fan can be driven in manual (use pwm1 to change the speed);
+ * 2; The fan is driven automatically depending on the temperature.
+
+NOTE: Be sure to use the manual mode if you want to drive the fan speed manually
+
+NOTE2: Not all fan management modes may be supported on all chipsets. We are
+working on it.
+
+Bug reports
+---------
+
+Thermal management on Nouveau is new and may not work on all cards. If you have
+inquiries, please ping mupuf on IRC (#nouveau, freenode).
+
+Bug reports should be filled on Freedesktop's bug tracker. Please follow
+http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs