Hi Kieran, On Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 18:35:48 Kieran Bingham wrote: > On 26/06/17 19:12, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > The VSP supports both header and headerless display lists. The latter is > > easier to use when the VSP feeds data directly to the DU in continuous > > mode, and the driver thus uses headerless display lists for DU operation > > and header display lists otherwise. > > > > Headerless display lists are only available on WPF.0. This has never > > been an issue so far, as only WPF.0 is connected to the DU. However, on > > H3 ES2.0, the VSP-DL instance has both WPF.0 and WPF.1 connected to the > > DU. We thus can't use headerless display lists unconditionally for DU > > operation. > > Would it be crazy to suggest we drop headerless display lists? > > If we must support header display lists in continuous mode - Rather than > having 2 cases for continuous modes to support (having to support > headerless, on WPF.0, and header on WPF.1) if we just use your header loop > trick - would that simplify our code maintenance? > > (We can always remove headerless support later if you agree, this is more of > an idea at the moment) I had the exact same thought, but I believe we should wait a few kernel releases to see if the next code is stable before removing the old one. I have a debug patch that forces usage of header display lists unconditionally, and I'll try to develop a few additional stress-tests for that. > > Implement support for continuous mode with header display lists, and use > > it for DU operation on WPF outputs that don't support headerless mode. > > > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart > > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Except for future discussion points, I can't see anything wrong here so: > > Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > > drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_dl.c | 195 +++++++++++++++++--------- > > drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_regs.h | 1 + > > 2 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-) -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
