On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 05:25:30PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > Should help new people pick suitable tasks. > > Cc: Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > index 9ac102922712..73c51b5a0997 100644 > --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > @@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ TODO list > This section contains a list of smaller janitorial tasks in the kernel DRM > graphics subsystem useful as newbie projects. Or for slow rainy days. > > +Difficulty > +---------- > + > +To make it easier task are categorized into different levels: > + > +Starter: Good tasks to get started with the DRM subsystem. > + > +Intermediate: Tasks which need some experience with working in the DRM > +subsystem, or some specific GPU/display graphics knowledge. For debugging issue > +it's good to have the relevant hardware (or a virtual driver set up) available > +for testing. > + > +Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem > +and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and > +testing. > + > Subsystem-wide refactorings > =========================== > > @@ -20,6 +36,8 @@ implementations), and then remove it. > > Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Convert existing KMS drivers to atomic modesetting > -------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -38,6 +56,8 @@ do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks. > > Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers > > +Level: Advanced > + > Clean up the clipped coordination confusion around planes > --------------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -50,6 +70,8 @@ helpers. > > Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers > > +Level: Advanced > + > Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers > ---------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -63,6 +85,8 @@ events for atomic commits correctly. But fixing these bugs is good anyway. > > Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers > > +Level: Advanced > + > Fallout from atomic KMS > ----------------------- > > @@ -91,6 +115,8 @@ interfaces to fix these issues: > > Contact: Daniel Vetter > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Get rid of dev->struct_mutex from GEM drivers > --------------------------------------------- > > @@ -114,6 +140,8 @@ fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only t > > Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers > > +Level: Advanced > + > Convert instances of dev_info/dev_err/dev_warn to their DRM_DEV_* equivalent > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -129,6 +157,8 @@ are better. > > Contact: Sean Paul, Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert > > +Level: Starter > + > Convert drivers to use simple modeset suspend/resume > ---------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -139,6 +169,8 @@ of the atomic suspend/resume code in older atomic modeset drivers. > > Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Convert drivers to use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_setup/teardown() > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -157,6 +189,8 @@ probably use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_teardown(). > > Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Clean up mmap forwarding > ------------------------ > > @@ -166,6 +200,8 @@ There's drm_gem_prime_mmap() for this now, but still needs to be rolled out. > > Contact: Daniel Vetter > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Generic fbdev defio support > --------------------------- > > @@ -196,6 +232,8 @@ Might be good to also have some igt testcases for this. > > Contact: Daniel Vetter, Noralf Tronnes > > +Level: Advanced > + > idr_init_base() > --------------- > > @@ -206,6 +244,8 @@ efficient. > > Contact: Daniel Vetter > > +Level: Starter > + > struct drm_gem_object_funcs > --------------------------- > > @@ -216,6 +256,8 @@ We also need a 2nd version of the CMA define that doesn't require the > vmapping to be present (different hook for prime importing). Plus this needs to > be rolled out to all drivers using their own implementations, too. > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Use DRM_MODESET_LOCK_ALL_* helpers instead of boilerplate > --------------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -231,6 +273,8 @@ As a reference, take a look at the conversions already completed in drm core. > > Contact: Sean Paul, respective driver maintainers > > +Level: Starter > + > Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers > --------------------------------- > > @@ -241,6 +285,9 @@ no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent. > > Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter > > +Level: Intermediate (mostly because it is a huge tasks without good partial > +milestones, not technically itself that challenging) > + > Convert direct mode.vrefresh accesses to use drm_mode_vrefresh() > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > @@ -259,6 +306,8 @@ drm_display_mode to avoid future use. > > Contact: Sean Paul > > +Level: Starter > + > Remove drm_display_mode.hsync > ----------------------------- > > @@ -269,6 +318,8 @@ it to use drm_mode_hsync() instead. > > Contact: Sean Paul > > +Level: Starter > + > drm_fb_helper tasks > ------------------- > > @@ -284,6 +335,8 @@ drm_fb_helper tasks > removed: drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors(), > drm_fb_helper_add_one_connector() and drm_fb_helper_remove_one_connector(). > > +Level: Intermediate > + > connector register/unregister fixes > ----------------------------------- > > @@ -296,6 +349,8 @@ connector register/unregister fixes > drm_dp_aux_init, and moving the actual registering into a late_register > callback as recommended in the kerneldoc. > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Core refactorings > ================= > > @@ -338,6 +393,8 @@ This is a really varied tasks with lots of little bits and pieces: > > Contact: Daniel Vetter > > +Level: Advanced > + > Clean up the debugfs support > ---------------------------- > > @@ -367,6 +424,8 @@ There's a bunch of issues with it: > > Contact: Daniel Vetter > > +Level: Intermediate > + > KMS cleanups > ------------ > > @@ -382,6 +441,8 @@ Some of these date from the very introduction of KMS in 2008 ... > end, for which we could add drm_*_cleanup_kfree(). And then there's the (for > historical reasons) misnamed drm_primary_helper_destroy() function. > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Better Testing > ============== > > @@ -390,6 +451,8 @@ Enable trinity for DRM > > And fix up the fallout. Should be really interesting ... > > +Level: Advanced > + > Make KMS tests in i-g-t generic > ------------------------------- > > @@ -403,6 +466,8 @@ converting things over. For modeset tests we also first need a bit of > infrastructure to use dumb buffers for untiled buffers, to be able to run all > the non-i915 specific modeset tests. > > +Level: Advanced > + > Extend virtual test driver (VKMS) > --------------------------------- > > @@ -412,6 +477,8 @@ fit the available time. > > Contact: Daniel Vetter > > +Level: See details > + > Backlight Refactoring > --------------------- > > @@ -425,6 +492,8 @@ Plan to fix this: > > Contact: Daniel Vetter > > +Level: Intermediate > + > Driver Specific > =============== > > @@ -453,6 +522,8 @@ for fbdev. > > Contact: Sam Ravnborg > > +Level: Advanced > + > Outside DRM > =========== > > @@ -482,3 +553,5 @@ and Weston. > - [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/blob/fbconv/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbconv_helper.c > > Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> > + > +Level: Advanced > -- > 2.23.0 > -- Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
