On 25 July 2018 at 12:27, Benjamin Gaignard
<benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2018-07-25 12:29 GMT+02:00 Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 20 July 2018 at 12:33, Benjamin Gaignard
>> <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> This is a modetest like tool but using atomic API.
>>>
>>> With modetest_atomic it is mandatory to specify a mode ("-s")
>>> and a plane ("-P") to display a pattern on screen.
>>>
>>> "-v" does a loop swapping between two framebuffers for each
>>> active planes.
>>>
>>> modetest_atomic doesn't offer cursor support
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> The code is based on modetest and keep most of it infrastructure
>>> like arguments parsing, finding properties id from their name,
>>> resources dumping or the general way of working.
>>> It duplicates modetest code but adding compilation flags or
>>> conditional tests everywhere in modetest would have made it
>>> more complex and unreadable.
>>>
>>> Creating modetest_atomic could allow to test atomic API without
>>> need to use "big" frameworks like weston, drm_hwcomposer or igt
>>> with all their dependencies.
>>> kmscube could also be used to test atomic API but it need EGL.
>>>
>>> It have been tested (only) on stm driver with one or two planes
>>> actived.
>>>
>>> tests/modetest/Makefile.am | 13 +-
>>> tests/modetest/Makefile.sources | 7 +
>>> tests/modetest/modetest_atomic.c | 1546 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> Quick diff/grep/wc exercise shows that ~10% of modetest_atomic.c is new code.
>> I agree that modetest.c is getting kind of big and messy. How about
>> instead of duplicating it, we flesh out the legacy vs atomic codepaths
>> into helpers in separate files?
>>
>> It will result in [c]leaner code, only one executable
>> installed/packaged and less build system changes.
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Emil
>
> It was my initial thought too: I have tried to add "-a" option to
> enable atomic way
> of working but their is small changes to do everywhere and that add
> lot of conditional tests.
Can you please try beating something into shape? It's fairly hard to
judge without anything to look at.
Thanks
Emil
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