Re: [PATCH 00/17] drm/mgag200: Convert to atomic modesetting

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Am 05.05.20 um 14:20 schrieb John Donnelly:
> 
> 
>> On May 4, 2020, at 8:39 AM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John
>>
>> Am 30.04.20 um 02:11 schrieb John Donnelly:
>>> On 4/29/20 9:32 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>>>> This patchset converts mgag200 to atomic modesetting. It uses simple
>>>> KMS helpers and SHMEM.
>>>>
>>>> Patches 1 to 4 simplifies the driver before the conversion. For example,
>>>> the HW cursor is not usable with the way universal planes work. A few
>>>> data structures can be cleaned up.
>>>>
>>>> Patches 5 to 15 untangle the existing modesetting code into smaller
>>>> functions. Specifically, mode setting and plane updates are being
>>>> separated from each other.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 16 converts mgag200 to simple KMS helpers and enables atomic
>>>> mode setting.
>>>>
>>>> As some HW seems to require a framebuffer offset of 0 within the video
>>>> memory, it does not work with atomic modesetting. Atomically switching
>>>> plane framebuffers, requires either source or target buffer to be located
>>>> at a non-0 offet. To resolve this problem, patch 17 converts mgag200 from
>>>> VRAM helpers to SHMEM helpers. During plane updates, the content of the
>>>> SHMEM BO is memcpy'd to VRAM. From my subjective obersation, performance
>>>> is not nuch different from the original code.
>>>>
>>>> The patchset has been tested on MGA G200EH hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Thomas Zimmermann (17):
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Remove HW cursor
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Remove unused fields from struct mga_device
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Embed connector instance in struct mga_device
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Use managed mode-config initialization
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Clean up mga_set_start_address()
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Clean up mga_crtc_do_set_base()
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Move mode-setting code into separate helper function
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Split MISC register update into PLL selection, SYNC and
>>>>      I/O
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Update mode registers after plane registers
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Set pitch in a separate helper function
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Set primary plane's format in separate helper function
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Move TAGFIFO reset into separate function
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Move hiprilvl setting into separate functions
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Move register initialization into separate function
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Remove waiting from DPMS code
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Convert to simple KMS helper
>>>>    drm/mgag200: Replace VRAM helpers with SHMEM helpers
>>>>
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/Kconfig          |   4 +-
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/Makefile         |   2 +-
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_cursor.c | 319 --------
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c    |  51 +-
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h    |  43 +-
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c   |  28 -
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c   | 948 ++++++++++++-----------
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_reg.h    |   5 +-
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_ttm.c    |  35 +-
>>>>   9 files changed, 563 insertions(+), 872 deletions(-)
>>>>   delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_cursor.c
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.26.0
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Hi Thomas ,
>>>
>>>  I would like to test this on hardware that uses this device integrated
>>> into as BMC  ( iLo ) that I have ran into problems before. Can you post
>>> your staging URL so I can clone it ?
>>
>> I uploaded the patches at
>>
>>
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/-/tree/mgag200-simplekms-20200504
>>
>> You can clone them with
>>
>>  git clone git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:tzimmermann/linux.git
>>
>> and checkout the mgag200-simplekms-20200405 branch afterwards.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Thomas
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ( Thank you for CC'ing me. I removed my email from on dlist recently) .
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
>      I had no issues running  these changes with gnome on a server with a mgag200 integrated into a BMC .
> 
>     Tested-by:  John Donnelly <John.p.donnelly@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! I'll add the tag to the patchset.

Best regards
Thomas

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