Re: [PATCH 3/5] drm/armada: Construct a temporary crtc state for plane checks

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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 09:02:35PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:42:00PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 07:08:55PM +0200, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > As armada isn't an atomic driver trying to pass a non-populated
> > > crtc->state to drm_atomic_helper_check_plane_state() will end in tears.
> > > Construct a temporary crtc state a la drm_plane_helper_check_update()
> > > and pass that instead. For now we just really need crtc_state->enable
> > > to be there.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to solve this by having the atomic state setup
> > for non-atomic drivers instead, so we're not unwinding some of the
> > work that's already been done to try and convert drivers /to/
> > atomic modeset?
> 
> Dunno. Feels like a wasted effort adding more code that'll just get
> ripped out as soon as the atomic conversion happens. And I'd rather
> not have to worry about potentially stale states hanging around, in
> case you forgot to update something somewhere.
> 
> In any case, I don't think this is unwinding anything. Once you have
> the atomic conversion done sufficiently you can just drop these
> temporary states. We already have the temp state for the plane here
> anyway, and pairing that with a crtc state seems rather logical.

So yea or nay on these armada patches?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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