On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 20:21, james qian wang (Arm Technology China)
<james.qian.wang@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:49:26AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 07:12:55AM +0000, james qian wang (Arm Technology China) wrote:
> > > There are some restrictions if HW works on side_by_side, expose it via
> > > config_id to user.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: James Qian Wang (Arm Technology China) <james.qian.wang@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h | 3 ++-
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c | 1 +
> > > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h
> > > index 1053b11352eb..96e2e4016250 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h
> > > @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ union komeda_config_id {
> > > n_scalers:2, /* number of scalers per pipeline */
> > > n_layers:3, /* number of layers per pipeline */
> > > n_richs:3, /* number of rich layers per pipeline */
> > > - reserved_bits:6;
> > > + side_by_side:1, /* if HW works on side_by_side mode */
> > > + reserved_bits:5;
> > > };
> > > __u32 value;
> > > };
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c
> > > index c3fa4835cb8d..4dd4699d4e3d 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c
> > > @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ config_id_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> >
> > Uh, this sysfs file here looks a lot like uapi for some compositor to
> > decide what to do. Do you have the userspace for this?
>
> Yes, our HWC driver uses this config_id and product_id for identifying the
> HW caps.
>
This seems like it should be done more in the kernel, why does
userspace needs all that info, to make more informed decisions?
How would drm_hwcomposer get the same result?
I'd prefer we just remove the sysfs nodes from upstream unless we have
an upstream user for them.
Dave.
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