On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 04:50:16PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> On 16 October 2017 at 16:41, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 02:29:07PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> From: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> >> >> This adds the infrastructure needed to quirk displays >> >> using edid and to mark them a non-standard. >> >> >> >> A non-standard display is one which doesn't work like >> >> a normal rectangular monitor or requires some transformation >> >> of the output by the rendering process to make sense. >> >> >> >> This is meant to cover head mounted devices like HTC Vive. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> --- >> >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c | 13 +++++++++++++ >> >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 8 ++++++-- >> >> include/drm/drm_connector.h | 5 +++++ >> >> include/drm/drm_mode_config.h | 7 +++++++ >> >> 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> > >> > "non-standard" seems very ambiguous to me. If this is targetting HMDs in >> > particular, perhaps we can borrow a term from that. Without being really >> > familiar with that technology, a quick Google search suggests that these >> > devices are commonly referred to as operating in "direct mode". Perhaps >> > a boolean "direct-mode" property would be less ambiguous? >> >> I'm not sure direct-mode is any less ambiguous, I'm loathe to tie generic >> features to specific technologies if we can avoid it, there may be other >> requirements for connected displays we don't want to display on without >> some special app that aren't HMDs. >> >> I agree non-standard is a bit ambiguous, but I'm not happy direct mode >> gives me any more useful info, anyone else got a name? > > I'd have just gone with HMD. We're really bad at predicting the future, > every time we try to make things a bit too generic it bites us. And think > for leases it makes sense (since people are already talking about other > uses than just HMD pass-through), but for this prop, not so much. I'd vote for HMD too. non-standard is too ambiguous. Alex > -Daniel > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
