docs: Drop the kernel pin and HDMI refresh boost descriptions

README.md

@@ -48,16 +48,6 @@ What Steamify can do on a Valve Steam Machine:
   - **Power-off fix** - on by default: shutting down really turns the Steam
     Machine off, also with the newest CachyOS kernel
     ([details](TECHNICAL.md#power-off-fix-steam-machine)).
-  - **Pin the kernel to 7.1.6-1** - no longer offered: it was needed for
-    shutting down, which the power-off fix above covers now. An existing pin
-    is shown unticked, so the next run removes it and brings back CachyOS's
-    current kernel ([details](TECHNICAL.md#kernel-pin-steam-machine)).
-  - **HDMI refresh boost** - only with the pinned kernel, never ticked by
-    default: gets the highest refresh rate your HDMI display runs at the
-    desktop resolution (e.g. 110 Hz instead of 60 on a 3440x1440 monitor).
-    Each step is shown and you confirm it; no answer within 15 s switches
-    back. For more (e.g. 175 Hz), use DisplayPort
-    ([details](TECHNICAL.md#hdmi-refresh-boost-steam-machine)).
   - **Update BIOS** - installs Valve's newest Steam Machine BIOS. Never ticked
     by default, at your own risk, and only after two warnings
     ([details](TECHNICAL.md#bios-updates-steam-machine)).

TECHNICAL.md

@@ -253,88 +253,6 @@ on the system itself; the version only decides about updates:
 
 Bump a component's number whenever what its `<id>_enable` sets up changes.
 
-## Kernel pin (Steam Machine)
-
-With CachyOS kernels newer than 7.1.6 a Steam Machine rebooted instead of
-shutting down; the power-off fix above handles that now. Since 2.2.0 the
-**Pin the kernel** sub-option is no longer offered. A pin that's still
-there is shown unticked, so a normal run (after the review) removes it and
-brings back CachyOS's current kernel; HDMI refresh boost, which needs the
-pinned kernel, is unticked with it. The pin installed `linux-cachyos` and
-`linux-cachyos-headers` 7.1.6-1 and added them to `IgnorePkg` in
-`/etc/pacman.conf`, so updates skipped them.
-
-The packages (and their signatures, which pacman checks) are kept in
-`/var/cache/steamify/kernel`, so re-applying needs no download. Missing
-files are taken from pacman's cache, else downloaded from this repo's
-`kernel-7.1.6-1` release, then `archive.cachyos.org`, then
-`mirror.cachyos.org` (which only has the current kernel). Every file must
-match the SHA-256 in the script and have a valid CachyOS signature; a bad
-one is deleted, so the next run downloads it again. Set `PINNED_KERNEL_URL`
-to a directory URL with the files to try another source first, or drop them
-into the kernel directory yourself.
-
-Unticking it removes the pin and runs `sudo pacman -Syu`, which brings the
-kernel back to CachyOS's current version; the files stay for next time.
-
-## HDMI refresh boost (Steam Machine)
-
-With the pinned kernel (7.1.6), HDMI displays often stay at 60 Hz. Two
-reasons:
-
-- Monitors list their fast modes in an extra EDID block, announced by the
-  HDMI Forum EEODB data block. 7.1.6 only reads the first extension block,
-  so it never sees them. Newer kernels do.
-- Their fastest modes need HDMI 2.1 (FRL). 7.1.6's amdgpu only does HDMI
-  2.0 (TMDS, at most 600 MHz), but a mode with the display's own shortest
-  blanking at a slightly lower rate often fits.
-
-The menu item (only on a Steam Machine with the pinned kernel, never
-ticked by default, run from the desktop in Konsole):
-
-1. Takes the desktop resolution from KDE (`kscreen-doctor -j`) and reads the
-   display's complete EDID over DDC (`i2ctransfer`, segment pointer 0x30).
-   A live EDID left by an earlier test is cleared first.
-2. Calculates the highest rate that fits: the display's TMDS limit (HDMI
-   Forum VSDB, capped at amdgpu's 600 MHz), its shortest blanking at that
-   resolution and its maximum refresh (range limits, VRR maximum). Steps:
-   that rate rounded down to ten, and the hundred below it as a safe option.
-   Rates the display already lists, or that aren't faster than what works
-   now, are left out.
-3. Builds the EDID: all of the display's blocks, the block count and EEODB
-   fixed, plus a DisplayID block with the steps.
-4. Loads it live (debugfs `edid_override`, `trigger_hotplug`) and switches
-   to each step, lowest first. Each one needs a "y" within 15 s
-   (`WIZARD_HDMI_CONFIRM_SECONDS` for tests); anything else switches back
-   and stops.
-5. Saves the confirmed steps for that display: the EDID as
-   `/usr/lib/firmware/edid/steamify-<id>.bin`, where `<id>` is the display's
-   manufacturer, model, serial and date (EDID bytes 8-17), and a line in
-   `/etc/steamify/hdmi-edid.conf` (id, name, mode, rates). Other saved
-   displays are kept.
-
-`steamify-edid.service` (at boot, before the login manager) and a udev rule
-(`90-steamify-edid.rules`, every drm hotplug) run
-`/usr/local/bin/steamify-edid-hotplug`. Per HDMI port it reads the connected
-display's ID over DDC (the real display, even while an override is loaded)
-and loads that display's saved EDID through debugfs, or resets the port to
-the display's own EDID when there is none, or no display. What's loaded per
-port is kept in `/run/steamify-edid`, so the hotplug the script triggers
-itself doesn't loop.
-
-The item is on when the connected display runs on its saved EDID; with
-another display it's off, and ticking it sets that one up. Turning it off
-removes the connected display's EDID; the unit and rule go with the last
-one. In the app the item is a **Set up…** button, and **Manage** once a
-display is saved: it lists every saved display, removes any of them, and
-sets up the connected display when it has none. Unpinning the kernel
-removes them all.
-
-Versions before 2.1.0 used `drm.edid_firmware=` on the kernel command line
-(and the initramfs), which applied to any display on that port; re-applying
-saves such a setup per display and removes the parameter. Untick it before removing the
-kernel pin: newer kernels read the EDID themselves and can do HDMI 2.1.
-
 ## BIOS updates (Steam Machine)
 
 The **Update BIOS** item is only shown on a Steam Machine and is never ticked
@@ -403,9 +321,8 @@ immediately, which can turn into a loop - see
 | `lib/wizard-shortcut.sh` | Steamify shortcut: desktop icon and launcher entry that run the newest release |
 | `lib/bios.sh` | Update BIOS (Steam Machine, opt-in): current/newest version, double confirmation, fwupd |
 | `lib/cec.sh` | HDMI-CEC: Valve's `cecd` and friends from its `holo` repository |
-| `lib/steam-machine.sh` | Steam Machine support: LED driver, LED access, steamos-manager; kernel pin |
+| `lib/steam-machine.sh` | Steam Machine support: LED driver, LED access, steamos-manager |
 | `lib/fremont-poweroff.sh` | Steam Machine support: the power-off fix (DKMS module from `patches/`) |
-| `lib/hdmi-refresh.sh` | HDMI refresh boost (Steam Machine, pinned kernel): EDID over DDC, calculated steps, live test, per-display EDID hotplug script |
 | `patches/` | Module sources and patches the scripts build or apply (`patch_file`); see its README |
 | `.github/tools/bundle.sh` | Builds the single-file version (`dist/steamify.sh`), with `patches/` embedded |
 | `.github/workflows/bundle.yml` | Builds and checks it on every push; publishes it on `main` |

lib/fremont-poweroff.sh

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 # booting up again. Recent kernels (7.2, and the 6.x, 7.0 and 7.1 updates
 # that got the change backported) keep the S4/S5 wake bit the firmware
 # leaves set on GPIO pin 18 ("pinctrl-amd: Don't clear S4 wake bits at
-# probe"), so the machine starts again right after powering off (the reason
+# probe"), so the machine starts again right after powering off. Valve's kernel clears it at probe on Fremont, in
-# for the old kernel pin). Valve's kernel clears it at probe on Fremont, in
 # a patch not meant for upstream, so CachyOS won't get it. A small module
 # (patches/steamify-fremont-poweroff.c) clears it right before power-off;
 # DKMS builds it for each installed kernel. On a kernel that clears it

lib/menu.sh

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ declare -A LABEL=(
     [cec]="HDMI-CEC: use Steam with the TV remote, TV on/off with the PC (experimental)"
     [machine]="Steam Machine support: LED bar driver, hardware settings in Steam"
     [poweroff]="Power-off fix: the Steam Machine stays off after shutting down"
-    [kpin]="Pin the kernel to $PINNED_KERNEL_VER (no longer needed: untick for CachyOS's current kernel)"
+    [kpin]="Pin the kernel to $PINNED_KERNEL_VER (untick for CachyOS's current kernel)"
     [hdmi]="HDMI refresh boost: highest refresh your HDMI display runs"
     [bios]="Update BIOS"
 )

ui/qml/Main.qml

@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ ApplicationWindow {
         poweroff: { label: "Power-off fix", hint: "Stays off after shutting down",
                     body: "With recent kernels the Steam Machine starts again right after shutting down: the firmware leaves a wake bit set, and newer kernels (7.2, and updates of 6.x, 7.0 and 7.1) no longer clear it. Valve's own kernel clears it; this small module does the same right before power-off.",
                     changes: ["steamify-fremont-poweroff module for each installed kernel (DKMS)", "Only on a Steam Machine, only touches that one wake bit", "Off: recent kernels may start it again after shutting down"] },
-        kpin: { label: "Pin the kernel", hint: "No longer needed: untick for the current kernel",
+        kpin: { label: "Pin the kernel", hint: "Untick for CachyOS's current kernel",
-                body: "Keeps the Steam Machine on CachyOS kernel 7.1.6, which older versions of Steamify needed to shut down properly. The power-off fix handles that now. Untick it to go back to CachyOS's current kernel (HDMI refresh boost goes with it: newer kernels read the display's fast modes and do HDMI 2.1 themselves).",
+                body: "Keeps the Steam Machine on CachyOS kernel 7.1.6. Untick it to go back to CachyOS's current kernel; HDMI refresh boost goes with it.",
                 changes: ["linux-cachyos from Steamify's release (signature checked)", "Kept in /var/cache/steamify/kernel", "Added to IgnorePkg"] },
         hdmi: { label: "HDMI refresh boost", hint: "Higher refresh rates over HDMI",
                 body: "The pinned kernel keeps many HDMI displays at 60 Hz. Turning this on shows which refresh rates your display can run at the desktop resolution; you pick them, and each one is tried for 15 seconds so you can check the picture before it's installed.",