Re: [PATCH RFC 00/11] drm/tilcdc: Atomic modeset support

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On 05/09/16 17:42, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> > It's not clear to me if a (primary) plane is required with atomic
>> > universal planes and modesetting or not... I guess it is, when thinking
>> > of how e.g. a framebuffer is configured to be shown on a screen when
>> > using the atomic modesetting uapi.
> You need a primary plane, but atomic doesn't require that it's enabled.
> Which this simple display controller probably wont like, so seems like
> this implementation of a primary plane is a bit too simple. You also need

So I do what I can, by checking in crtc check that the plane is part of
the new state. What more should I do?g

> a real plane for the cursor, if you want to support that with atomic.
> 

Well, there is no such thing in LCDC.

>> > But if it is required, it makes me wonder, are there other HWs out there
>> > without any planes? The dummy plane implementation you added is not
>> > complex, but is it something that should be implemented with DRM helper
>> > funcs?
> There's a drm_simple_display_pipe floating around which seems perfectly
> suited to tilcdc. It's meant for the case where you have 1 plane, 1 crtc
> and 1 encoder maybe linking to different connectors. And it takes care of
> all the small bits for you, with a grand total of 5 callbacks, all of them
> optional.
> 
> Might indeed be useful to rebase tilcdc on top of that, should be possible
> to nuke piles of code.


Looks interesting. Does it look like it is getting ready to be merged soon?

	Jyri
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