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amdgpu_dm_create_validate_stream_for_sink() walks encoding_order[] and uses the first encoding that validates. YCbCr 4:4:4 is listed before RGB, so an HDMI sink that advertises 4:4:4 gets YCbCr 4:4:4 whenever the "color format" property is left at AUTO, even though RGB fits the same link. That contradicts the documented AUTO behaviour for HDMI in enum drm_connector_color_format (RGB, falling back to YCbCr 4:2:0 only when the bandwidth is not available or the mode is 4:2:0-only), which the amdgpu implementation of the property also describes. It also leaves the "Broadcast RGB" property without effect on such sinks, since the quantization range it selects only applies to RGB output. Try RGB first. The mask still holds every encoding the sink supports, so a mode that cannot carry RGB falls back exactly as before. For reference, v7.2 picked RGB here unless YCbCr 4:4:4 was forced through debugfs, while earlier kernels picked YCbCr 4:4:4 for any HDMI sink that advertised it. Fixes: 0b0ff65d3ca1 ("drm/amd/display: Refactor stream validation") Suggested-by: Adolfo Rodrigues <adolfotregosa@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 Signed-off-by: Adrian Betschart <adrian.betschart@cinemaone.ch> Reviewed-by: Fangzhi Zuo <jerry.zuo@amd.com> Tested-by: Adolfo Rodrigues <adolfotregosa@gmail.com> Tested-by: Daniel Wheeler <daniel.wheeler@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> (cherry picked from commit 7de432bc753133764dc40d37f9388da56de251e7)
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+============================================
+Implementing I2C device drivers in userspace
+============================================
+
+Usually, I2C devices are controlled by a kernel driver. But it is also
+possible to access all devices on an adapter from userspace, through
+the /dev interface. You need to load module i2c-dev for this.
+
+Each registered I2C adapter gets a number, counting from 0. You can
+examine /sys/class/i2c-dev/ to see what number corresponds to which adapter.
+Alternatively, you can run "i2cdetect -l" to obtain a formatted list of all
+I2C adapters present on your system at a given time. i2cdetect is part of
+the i2c-tools package.
+
+I2C device files are character device files with major device number 89
+and a minor device number corresponding to the number assigned as
+explained above. They should be called "i2c-%d" (i2c-0, i2c-1, ...,
+i2c-10, ...). All 256 minor device numbers are reserved for I2C.
+
+
+C example
+=========
+
+So let's say you want to access an I2C adapter from a C program.
+First, you need to include these two headers::
+
+ #include <linux/i2c-dev.h>
+ #include <i2c/smbus.h>
+
+Now, you have to decide which adapter you want to access. You should
+inspect /sys/class/i2c-dev/ or run "i2cdetect -l" to decide this.
+Adapter numbers are assigned somewhat dynamically, so you can not
+assume much about them. They can even change from one boot to the next.
+
+Next thing, open the device file, as follows::
+
+ int file;
+ int adapter_nr = 2; /* probably dynamically determined */
+ char filename[20];
+
+ snprintf(filename, 19, "/dev/i2c-%d", adapter_nr);
+ file = open(filename, O_RDWR);
+ if (file < 0) {
+ /* ERROR HANDLING; you can check errno to see what went wrong */
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+When you have opened the device, you must specify with what device
+address you want to communicate::
+
+ int addr = 0x40; /* The I2C address */
+
+ if (ioctl(file, I2C_SLAVE, addr) < 0) {
+ /* ERROR HANDLING; you can check errno to see what went wrong */
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+Well, you are all set up now. You can now use SMBus commands or plain
+I2C to communicate with your device. SMBus commands are preferred if
+the device supports them. Both are illustrated below::
+
+ __u8 reg = 0x10; /* Device register to access */
+ __s32 res;
+ char buf[10];
+
+ /* Using SMBus commands */
+ res = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(file, reg);
+ if (res < 0) {
+ /* ERROR HANDLING: I2C transaction failed */
+ } else {
+ /* res contains the read word */
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Using I2C Write, equivalent of
+ * i2c_smbus_write_word_data(file, reg, 0x6543)
+ */
+ buf[0] = reg;
+ buf[1] = 0x43;
+ buf[2] = 0x65;
+ if (write(file, buf, 3) != 3) {
+ /* ERROR HANDLING: I2C transaction failed */
+ }
+
+ /* Using I2C Read, equivalent of i2c_smbus_read_byte(file) */
+ if (read(file, buf, 1) != 1) {
+ /* ERROR HANDLING: I2C transaction failed */
+ } else {
+ /* buf[0] contains the read byte */
+ }
+
+Note that only a subset of the I2C and SMBus protocols can be achieved by
+the means of read() and write() calls. In particular, so-called combined
+transactions (mixing read and write messages in the same transaction)
+aren't supported. For this reason, this interface is almost never used by
+user-space programs.
+
+IMPORTANT: because of the use of inline functions, you *have* to use
+'-O' or some variation when you compile your program!
+
+
+Full interface description
+==========================
+
+The following IOCTLs are defined:
+
+``ioctl(file, I2C_SLAVE, long addr)``
+ Change slave address. The address is passed in the 7 lower bits of the
+ argument (except for 10 bit addresses, passed in the 10 lower bits in this
+ case).
+
+``ioctl(file, I2C_TENBIT, long select)``
+ Selects ten bit addresses if select not equals 0, selects normal 7 bit
+ addresses if select equals 0. Default 0. This request is only valid
+ if the adapter has I2C_FUNC_10BIT_ADDR.
+
+``ioctl(file, I2C_PEC, long select)``
+ Selects SMBus PEC (packet error checking) generation and verification
+ if select not equals 0, disables if select equals 0. Default 0.
+ Used only for SMBus transactions. This request only has an effect if the
+ the adapter has I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_PEC; it is still safe if not, it just
+ doesn't have any effect.
+
+``ioctl(file, I2C_FUNCS, unsigned long *funcs)``
+ Gets the adapter functionality and puts it in ``*funcs``.
+
+``ioctl(file, I2C_RDWR, struct i2c_rdwr_ioctl_data *msgset)``
+ Do combined read/write transaction without stop in between.
+ Only valid if the adapter has I2C_FUNC_I2C. The argument is
+ a pointer to a::
+
+ struct i2c_rdwr_ioctl_data {
+ struct i2c_msg *msgs; /* ptr to array of simple messages */
+ int nmsgs; /* number of messages to exchange */
+ }
+
+ The msgs[] themselves contain further pointers into data buffers.
+ The function will write or read data to or from that buffers depending
+ on whether the I2C_M_RD flag is set in a particular message or not.
+ The slave address and whether to use ten bit address mode has to be
+ set in each message, overriding the values set with the above ioctl's.
+
+``ioctl(file, I2C_SMBUS, struct i2c_smbus_ioctl_data *args)``
+ If possible, use the provided ``i2c_smbus_*`` methods described below instead
+ of issuing direct ioctls.
+
+You can do plain I2C transactions by using read(2) and write(2) calls.
+You do not need to pass the address byte; instead, set it through
+ioctl I2C_SLAVE before you try to access the device.
+
+You can do SMBus level transactions (see documentation file smbus-protocol.rst
+for details) through the following functions::
+
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_write_quick(int file, __u8 value);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte(int file);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_write_byte(int file, __u8 value);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(int file, __u8 command);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(int file, __u8 command, __u8 value);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_read_word_data(int file, __u8 command);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_write_word_data(int file, __u8 command, __u16 value);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_process_call(int file, __u8 command, __u16 value);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_block_process_call(int file, __u8 command, __u8 length,
+ __u8 *values);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_read_block_data(int file, __u8 command, __u8 *values);
+ __s32 i2c_smbus_write_block_data(int file, __u8 command, __u8 length,
+ __u8 *values);
+
+All these transactions return -1 on failure; you can read errno to see
+what happened. The 'write' transactions return 0 on success; the
+'read' transactions return the read value, except for read_block, which
+returns the number of values read. The block buffers need not be longer
+than 32 bytes.
+
+The above functions are made available by linking against the libi2c library,
+which is provided by the i2c-tools project. See:
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git/.
+
+
+Implementation details
+======================
+
+For the interested, here's the code flow which happens inside the kernel
+when you use the /dev interface to I2C:
+
+1) Your program opens /dev/i2c-N and calls ioctl() on it, as described in
+ section "C example" above.
+
+2) These open() and ioctl() calls are handled by the i2c-dev kernel
+ driver: see i2c-dev.c:i2cdev_open() and i2c-dev.c:i2cdev_ioctl(),
+ respectively. You can think of i2c-dev as a generic I2C chip driver
+ that can be programmed from user-space.
+
+3) Some ioctl() calls are for administrative tasks and are handled by
+ i2c-dev directly. Examples include I2C_SLAVE (set the address of the
+ device you want to access) and I2C_PEC (enable or disable SMBus error
+ checking on future transactions.)
+
+4) Other ioctl() calls are converted to in-kernel function calls by
+ i2c-dev. Examples include I2C_FUNCS, which queries the I2C adapter
+ functionality using i2c.h:i2c_get_functionality(), and I2C_SMBUS, which
+ performs an SMBus transaction using i2c-core-smbus.c:i2c_smbus_xfer().
+
+ The i2c-dev driver is responsible for checking all the parameters that
+ come from user-space for validity. After this point, there is no
+ difference between these calls that came from user-space through i2c-dev
+ and calls that would have been performed by kernel I2C chip drivers
+ directly. This means that I2C bus drivers don't need to implement
+ anything special to support access from user-space.
+
+5) These i2c.h functions are wrappers to the actual implementation of
+ your I2C bus driver. Each adapter must declare callback functions
+ implementing these standard calls. i2c.h:i2c_get_functionality() calls
+ i2c_adapter.algo->functionality(), while
+ i2c-core-smbus.c:i2c_smbus_xfer() calls either
+ adapter.algo->smbus_xfer() if it is implemented, or if not,
+ i2c-core-smbus.c:i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated() which in turn calls
+ i2c_adapter.algo->master_xfer().
+
+After your I2C bus driver has processed these requests, execution runs
+up the call chain, with almost no processing done, except by i2c-dev to
+package the returned data, if any, in suitable format for the ioctl.