drm/i915: Kill sink_crc for good

It was originally introduced following the VESA spec in order to validate PSR.

However we found so many issues around sink_crc that instead of helping PSR
development it only brought another layer of trouble to the table.

So, sink_crc has been a black whole for us in question of time, effort and hope.

First of the problems is that HW statement is clear: "Do not attempt to use
aux communication with PSR enabled". So the main reason behind sink_crc is
already compromised.

For a while we had hope on the aux-mutex could workaround this problem on SKL+
platforms, but that mutex was not reliable, not tested,
and we shouldn't use according to HW engineers.

Also, nor source, nor sink designed and implemented the sink_crc to be used like
we are trying to use here.

Well, the sink side of things is also apparently not prepared for this
case. Each panel that we tried seemed to have a different behavior with same
code and same source.

So, for all the time we lost on trying to ducktape all these different issues
I believe it is now time to move PSR to a more reliable validation.
Maybe not a perfect one as we dreamed for this sink_crc, but at least more
reliable.

Cc: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180705192528.30515-1-rodrigo.vivi@intel.com

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
index f8d5fafe1f1a..92b68ebc7413 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
@@ -1682,8 +1682,6 @@ void intel_dp_sink_dpms(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, int mode);
 void intel_dp_encoder_reset(struct drm_encoder *encoder);
 void intel_dp_encoder_suspend(struct intel_encoder *intel_encoder);
 void intel_dp_encoder_destroy(struct drm_encoder *encoder);
-int intel_dp_sink_crc(struct intel_dp *intel_dp,
-		      struct intel_crtc_state *crtc_state, u8 *crc);
 bool intel_dp_compute_config(struct intel_encoder *encoder,
 			     struct intel_crtc_state *pipe_config,
 			     struct drm_connector_state *conn_state);