Depth 30 enablement for ati-ddx + exa. Rev 3

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On 2018-01-24 06:35 PM, Mario Kleiner wrote:
> On 01/22/2018 07:01 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On 2018-01-22 03:14 AM, Mario Kleiner wrote:
>>> Ok, 3rd revision, now with per-x-screen drmmode_crtc_funcs rec
>>> and set_gamma = NULL in the depth 30 case. Also back to Fredrik's
>>> original exa 10 bit patch, just with his signed-off tacked on.
>>>
>>> Tested with single and dual x-screen, depth 24, depth 30 and mixed
>>> 24 and 30 on separate x-screens. Also tested against current tip
>>> of ati-ddx master.
>>
>> Thanks for the thorough testing.
>>
>> The patches look mostly good now, apart from some cosmetic issues (lines
>> shouldn't be unnecessarily shorter than 72 columns, and acronyms should
>> be spelled in all upper case, in the commit logs), but I can live with
>> those.
>>
>> However, I gave the patches a quick spin (without a 30-bit capable
>> monitor though) on the Turks card that's currently sitting in my
>> development machine, and I noticed that Xorg crashes on shutdown because
>> the XvMC extension failed to initialize. Can you take a look?
> 
> It's missing a definition to allow init on a depth 30 screen. I've fixed
> that in a patch i just sent out, so now the extension initializes.

Both patches merged, thanks!


> It failed here as well, but never resulted in a crash for me with my
> servers up to 1.19.5. You fixed a bug in the server causing the crash,
> but maybe it makes still sense for older unfixed servers to prevent
> trouble by initializing the extension, or instead disabling it on a
> depth 30 screen.
> 
> With that patch it exposes support, but then the two apps i could get to
> use XvMC at all with .mpg movies (mplayer and xine) fail to display on
> depth 30 for reasons that seem to be unrelated to XvMC.
> 
> The tests for mesa's gallium/state_trackers/xvmc/test sort of work
> though, although with some false color. After many hours of poking
> around, all i know is that i don't understand how XvMC is wired up?
> 
> Having the extension enabled in the ddx is needed for any test to work.
> But when i set a breakpoint on EVERGREENDisplayTexturedVideo() in
> evergreen_textured_videofuncs.c, that breakpoint is never hit, even in
> depth 24 when XvMC tests work, so i'm not sure if i'm looking at mostly
> unused code there?

I guess so. :)


>>> I am also currently looking into broken pageflipping with the ati-ddx
>>> under DRI2. This seems to be due to recent changes in the drmAddFB()
>>> calls to no longer pass in the depth/bpp of the x-screens root window
>>> pixmap, but instead the depth/bpp of the pixmap that should be
>>> flipped onto the scanout. On DRI3 this behaves as i'd expect, but
>>> on DRI2 the passed in pixmaps don't seem to have depth 24 on a depth
>>> 24 screen or depth 30 on a depth 30 screen, like the root windows,
>>> but instead the pixmaps come in at depth 32. That leads the pagelip
>>> ioctl to fail, with the kernel complaining that "Page flip is not
>>> allowed to change frame buffer format."
>>>
>>> If i hack mesa gallium/st's dri2_drawable_get_buffers() to avoid
>>> use of the DRI2GetBuffersWithFormat() request and instead use the
>>> older DRI2GetBuffers() request, then pageflips work again, as the
>>> old request derives the buffers depth from the glx drawables depth,
>>> which is 24 or 30 for a depth 24 or depth 30 x-screen, so a better
>>> match.
>>
>> Hmm. Can you track down where the "format" value in
>> radeon_dri2_create_buffer2 comes from? It's supposed to be the depth.
> 
> It is the depth that comes from gallium/state_trackers/dri/dri2.c:
> dri2_drawable_get_buffers(), where the switch-case statement translates
> pipe_format into depth values for the DRI2GetBuffersWithFormat request
> under DRI2 (originally introduced in commit 576161289 to transmit depth
> instead of bpp). We have a case statement that translates RGBA8888 and
> BGRA1010102 formats into depth 32.
> 
> It only happens if a client wants a fbconfig with alpha channel, for
> destination alpha blending etc., as my application happens to. If you
> only run glxgears or a desktop compositor like kde-5's, it won't happen
> as they only use bgrx configs without alpha.

I sent out a patch which should fix this, please test.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer


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