Re: [PATCH 24/39] drm: renesas: shmobile: Unify plane allocation

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Hi Laurent,

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:50 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:21:36AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Unify primary and overlay plane allocation:
> >   - Enhance shmob_drm_plane_create() so it can be used to create the
> >     primary plane, too,
> >   - Move overlay plane creation next to primary plane creation.
> >
> > As overlay plane index zero now means the primary plane, this requires
> > shifting all overlay plane indices by one.
>
> Do you use index zero to identify the primary plane just for
> shmob_drm_plane_create(), or somewhere else too ? If it's just to create
> the plane, you could instead pass the plane type to the function.

Index zero is just used for the creation.
I guess this sort of goes together with my question below...

> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Perhaps it would be better to not use dynamic allocation, but store
> > "struct drm_plane primary" and "struct shmob_drm_plane planes[5]" in
> > struct drm_shmob_device instead, like is done for the crtc and encoder?

... as embedding separate primary and planes[] would also get rid of
the need to adjust the plane indices when converting from logical to physical
overlay plane indices.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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