[PATCH 0/1] Add infrastructure for handling underlay planes

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On 17/03/17 04:51 PM, Shirish S wrote:
> I would like to use this letter to explain what this patche does.
> (Note its tested on Carrizo & Stoney)
> 
> * Firstly it decouples the per-plane per-crtc design, as a result,
>   now with the unit test called as 'modetest' we can see 3 planes
>   and 2 crtc's compared to what it was 2 planes for 2 crtc's w/o
>   this patch.
> * I have introduced new variable of max_surfaces to the public
>   caps structure that can be used for all asic's in future as well.
>   Basic understanding being:
> 	max_streams 	== crtc
> 	link_count 	== connector 
> 	max_surfaces 	== plane
> * The drm device initialization loops now for number of surfaces
>   instead of stream.
> * Have taken care that it won't break other asic's 
> * Am able to reach __setplane_internal() in drm_plane.c which
>   does the final update to plane, had to put a sanity patch there
>   as we do not have update_plane() and disable_plane() implemented
>    --> also testifies, that now we are able to handle planes with
>   this patch.
> * The YUV formats supported right now are default, will refine it
>   going further.

Sounds nice.

BTW, are you aware of the KMS tests in the intel-gpu-tools tree
(https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/)? There should
be much more comprehensive tests for this functionality there compared
to modetest.


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Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer


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