On 2023-10-05 13:15, Melissa Wen wrote:
> Brief documentation about pre-defined transfer function usage on AMD
> display driver and standardized EOTFs and inverse EOTFs.
>
> v3:
> - Document BT709 OETF (Pekka)
> - Fix description of sRGB and pure power funcs (Pekka)
>
> v4:
> - Add description of linear and non-linear forms (Harry)
>
> Co-developed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Melissa Wen <mwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx>
Harry
> ---
> .../amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_color.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_color.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_color.c
> index d03bdb010e8b..d5dbd20a6766 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_color.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_color.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,68 @@ void amdgpu_dm_init_color_mod(void)
> }
>
> #ifdef AMD_PRIVATE_COLOR
> +/* Pre-defined Transfer Functions (TF)
> + *
> + * AMD driver supports pre-defined mathematical functions for transferring
> + * between encoded values and optical/linear space. Depending on HW color caps,
> + * ROMs and curves built by the AMD color module support these transforms.
> + *
> + * The driver-specific color implementation exposes properties for pre-blending
> + * degamma TF, shaper TF (before 3D LUT), and blend(dpp.ogam) TF and
> + * post-blending regamma (mpc.ogam) TF. However, only pre-blending degamma
> + * supports ROM curves. AMD color module uses pre-defined coefficients to build
> + * curves for the other blocks. What can be done by each color block is
> + * described by struct dpp_color_capsand struct mpc_color_caps.
> + *
> + * AMD driver-specific color API exposes the following pre-defined transfer
> + * functions:
> + *
> + * - Identity: linear/identity relationship between pixel value and
> + * luminance value;
> + * - Gamma 2.2, Gamma 2.4, Gamma 2.6: pure power functions;
> + * - sRGB: 2.4: The piece-wise transfer function from IEC 61966-2-1:1999;
> + * - BT.709: has a linear segment in the bottom part and then a power function
> + * with a 0.45 (~1/2.22) gamma for the rest of the range; standardized by
> + * ITU-R BT.709-6;
> + * - PQ (Perceptual Quantizer): used for HDR display, allows luminance range
> + * capability of 0 to 10,000 nits; standardized by SMPTE ST 2084.
> + *
> + * The AMD color model is designed with an assumption that SDR (sRGB, BT.709,
> + * Gamma 2.2, etc.) peak white maps (normalized to 1.0 FP) to 80 nits in the PQ
> + * system. This has the implication that PQ EOTF (non-linear to linear) maps to
> + * [0.0..125.0] where 125.0 = 10,000 nits / 80 nits.
> + *
> + * Non-linear and linear forms are described in the table below:
> + *
> + * ┌───────────┬─────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
> + * │ │ Non-linear │ Linear │
> + * ├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
> + * │ sRGB │ UNORM or [0.0, 1.0] │ [0.0, 1.0] │
> + * ├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
> + * │ BT709 │ UNORM or [0.0, 1.0] │ [0.0, 1.0] │
> + * ├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
> + * │ Gamma 2.x │ UNORM or [0.0, 1.0] │ [0.0, 1.0] │
> + * ├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
> + * │ PQ │ UNORM or FP16 CCCS* │ [0.0, 125.0] │
> + * ├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
> + * │ Identity │ UNORM or FP16 CCCS* │ [0.0, 1.0] or CCCS** │
> + * └───────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
> + * * CCCS: Windows canonical composition color space
> + * ** Respectively
> + *
> + * In the driver-specific API, color block names attached to TF properties
> + * suggest the intention regarding non-linear encoding pixel's luminance
> + * values. As some newer encodings don't use gamma curve, we make encoding and
> + * decoding explicit by defining an enum list of transfer functions supported
> + * in terms of EOTF and inverse EOTF, where:
> + *
> + * - EOTF (electro-optical transfer function): is the transfer function to go
> + * from the encoded value to an optical (linear) value. De-gamma functions
> + * traditionally do this.
> + * - Inverse EOTF (simply the inverse of the EOTF): is usually intended to go
> + * from an optical/linear space (which might have been used for blending)
> + * back to the encoded values. Gamma functions traditionally do this.
> + */
> static const char * const
> amdgpu_transfer_function_names[] = {
> [AMDGPU_TRANSFER_FUNCTION_DEFAULT] = "Default",
