Just drive-by, but we have gsoc running so better to update it now. Great news is that two entries can be removed because essentially all done. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 51 ++++------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 9ecd2ebb8dd8..7dc6de07a3bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ De-midlayer drivers With the recent ``drm_bus`` cleanup patches for 3.17 it is no longer required to have a ``drm_bus`` structure set up. Drivers can directly set up the ``drm_device`` structure instead of relying on bus methods in ``drm_usb.c`` -and ``drm_platform.c``. The goal is to get rid of the driver's ``->load`` / +and ``drm_pci.c``. The goal is to get rid of the driver's ``->load`` / ``->unload`` callbacks and open-code the load/unload sequence properly, using the new two-stage ``drm_device`` setup/teardown. @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently the following drivers still use ``struct_mutex``: ``msm``, ``omapdrm`` and ``udl``. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers Switch to drm_connector_list_iter for any connector_list walking ---------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ plan is to switch to per-file driver API headers, which will also structure the kerneldoc better. This should also allow more fine-grained ``#include`` directives. +In the end no .c file should need to include ``drmP.h`` anymore. + Contact: Daniel Vetter Add missing kerneldoc for exported functions @@ -208,31 +210,6 @@ See https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/ for what's there already. Contact: Daniel Vetter -Hide legacy cruft better ------------------------- - -Way back DRM supported only drivers which shadow-attached to PCI devices with -userspace or fbdev drivers setting up outputs. Modern DRM drivers take charge -of the entire device, you can spot them with the DRIVER_MODESET flag. - -Unfortunately there's still large piles of legacy code around which needs to -be hidden so that driver writers don't accidentally end up using it. And to -prevent security issues in those legacy IOCTLs from being exploited on modern -drivers. This has multiple possible subtasks: - -* Make sure legacy IOCTLs can't be used on modern drivers. -* Extract support code for legacy features into a ``drm-legacy.ko`` kernel - module and compile it only when one of the legacy drivers is enabled. -* Extract legacy functions into their own headers and remove it that from the - monolithic ``drmP.h`` header. -* Remove any lingering cruft from the OS abstraction layer from modern - drivers. - -This is mostly done, the only thing left is to split up ``drm_irq.c`` into -legacy cruft and the parts needed by modern KMS drivers. - -Contact: Daniel Vetter - Make panic handling work ------------------------ @@ -338,23 +315,3 @@ Driver Specific Outside DRM =========== - -Better kerneldoc ----------------- - -This is pretty much done, but there's some advanced topics: - -Come up with a way to hyperlink to struct members. Currently you can hyperlink -to the struct using ``#struct_name``, but not to a member within. Would need -buy-in from kerneldoc maintainers, and the big question is how to make it work -without totally unsightly -``drm_foo_bar_really_long_structure->even_longer_memeber`` all over the text -which breaks text flow. - -Figure out how to integrate the asciidoc support for ascii-diagrams. We have a -few of those (e.g. to describe mode timings), and asciidoc supports converting -some ascii-art dialect into pngs. Would be really pretty to make that work. - -Contact: Daniel Vetter, Jani Nikula - -Jani is working on this already, hopefully lands in 4.8. -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
