DisplayPort audio stopped working in a kernel upgrade
Submitted by Ben Morris
Assigned to Default DRI bug account
Link to original bug (#107835)
Description
In a recent kernel upgrade, my DisplayPort audio output stopped working. PulseAudio showed no available profiles for the device, while aplay appeared to work normally but produced no sound. I'm running Debian Unstable, and I have a Radeon RX 470.
I have bisected (in linux-stable), and narrowed down the start of the problem to this commit:
commit 9168c089a2122606e2c01f6fbeda85ff950ac189 (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
Author: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com
Date: Tue Jul 10 12:56:45 2018 -0500
Revert "drm/amd/display: Don't return ddc result and read_bytes in same return value"
commit 5292221d6ddfed75e5b46cd42237a677094b99f3 upstream.
This reverts commit 018d82e5f02ef3583411bcaa4e00c69786f46f19.
This breaks DDC in certain cases. Revert for 4.18 and previous kernels.
For 4.19, this is fixed with the following more extensive patches:
drm/amd/display: Serialize is_dp_sink_present
drm/amd/display: Break out function to simply read aux reply
drm/amd/display: Return aux replies directly to DRM
drm/amd/display: Right shift AUX reply value sooner than later
drm/amd/display: Read AUX channel even if only status byte is returned
Link: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2018-July/023788.html
Acked-by: Harry Wentland harry.wentland@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
I have tried kernel 4.19-rc2, and, as suggested in the commit message, the audio problem does indeed seem to be resolved in 4.19.
I have never seen the stacktrace associated with the same commit at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200667