On 4 March 2016 at 16:32, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adding relevant mailing lists and people. Please don't send private > mails to maintainers ;-) > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> This is the Android-x86 project. >> I'm looking for info about atomic mode-setting drivers >> and then found your presentation at >> http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2015/Program/xdc-2015.pdf >> >> Especially page 16 talks about the Android support, >> exactly what I want. >> >> It said "no one has an open-source atomic hwc". >> Actually there is one in the AOSP 6.0 release: >> >> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/drm_hwcomposer >> >> It's developed by the Chromium team. >> An update repo is here: >> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/drm_hwcomposer > > Yup, my presentation is already outdated - the latest one for LCA2016 > mentions that hwc exists. > >> Contributing instructions are here: >> https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/contributing-to-drm_hwcomposer >> >> We are trying to enable the drm_hwcomposer for Android-x86. >> However, it requires atomic mode-setting drivers >> which seems are not ready in the vanilla kernel 4.4, >> the kernel we are using now. >> >> Unfortunately none of us is an expert of kernel drm drivres. >> Could you give me a brief status of the >> current atomic mode-setting drivers in vanilla kernel? >> What are still missing? fences? deadlock? >> More important, how much effort do we need >> to make them work with AOSP's drm_hwcomposer? > > There's a pile of drivers, but for classic x86 desktop only i915.ko, > and that is still not yet enabled by default. i915.nuclear_pageflip=1 > will give you experimental atomic support but not sure whether that's > good enough for hwcomposer. > > Fences are being worked on in upstream kernel, but nothing to show > yet.. Otherwise I don't know what's all needed to make it, I haven't > had a chance to play around with it yet. > Let's not forget the new AMDGPU code that, according to the summary [1], adds ATOMIC support for newer AMD hardware. Chih-Wei, there might be an updated branch somewhere you can grab, sadly I did not find any. Thus you might have to pick the patches off the mailing list, unless we have a patchwork instance for it somewhere ? >> >> More discussion about it can be found in >> our devel group: >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-x86-devel/RErWaXk3b7g/g_OSPGf4AwAJ > > Please include that mailing list too, to make sure everyone is on board. > Not sure why, yet that mailing list is closed for public eyes. Last time I checked one has to be invited to read or write to it :-( Props to Chih-Wei I'm on it, although others are sure to get the short end of the stick. Regards, Emil [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-February/100524.html _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
