On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 07:47:31PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > New KMS properties come with a bunch of requirements to avoid each > driver from running their own, inconsistent, set of properties, > eventually leading to issues like property conflicts, inconsistencies > between drivers and semantics, etc. > > Let's document what we expect. > > Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Alison Wang <alison.wang@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Anitha Chrisanthus <anitha.chrisanthus@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Chen Feng <puck.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Chun-Kuang Hu <chunkuang.hu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Edmund Dea <edmund.j.dea@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Heiko Stübner" <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Hyun Kwon <hyun.kwon@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jonas Karlman <jonas@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jyri Sarha <jyri.sarha@xxxxxx> > Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Philippe Cornu <philippe.cornu@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Qiang Yu <yuq825@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Robert Foss <robert.foss@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Roland Scheidegger <sroland@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sandy Huang <hjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tian Tao <tiantao6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomba@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Yannick Fertre <yannick.fertre@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Changes from v2: > - Take into account the feedback from Laurent and Lidiu to no longer > force generic properties, but prefix vendor-specific properties with > the vendor name > > Changes from v1: > - Typos and wording reported by Daniel and Alex > --- > Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst > index 87e5023e3f55..bbe254dca635 100644 > --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst > @@ -463,6 +463,33 @@ KMS Properties > This section of the documentation is primarily aimed at user-space developers. > For the driver APIs, see the other sections. > > +Requirements > +------------ > + > +KMS drivers might need to add extra properties to support new features. > +Each new property introduced in a driver need to meet a few > +requirements, in addition to the one mentioned above.: > + > +- Before the introduction of any vendor-specific properties, they must > + be first checked against the generic ones to avoid any conflict or > + redundancy. > + > +- Vendor-specific properties must be prefixed by the vendor's name, > + following the syntax "$vendor:$property". > + > +- Generic properties must be standardized, with some documentation to > + describe how the property can be used. > + > +- Generic properties must provide a generic helper in the core code to > + register that property on the object it attaches to. > + > +- Generic properties content must be decoded by the core and provided in > + the object's associated state structure. That includes anything > + drivers might want to precompute, like :c:type:`struct drm_clip_rect > + <drm_clip_rect>` for planes. > + > +- An IGT test should be submitted. > + > Property Types and Blob Property Support > ---------------------------------------- Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> > > -- > 2.31.1 >
