Den 22.03.2017 09.36, skrev Daniel Vetter:
Discussed with Noralf on the list a bit.
An open question is tinydrm vs. drm_panel, but until we have a clear
idea what's really needed in that space, I think it's best to just
move forward with what we have.
Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Thanks Daniel,
Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 70 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 7dc6de07a3bc..479bb040f6d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,30 @@ events for atomic commits correctly. But fixing these bugs is good anyway.
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
+Better manual-upload support for atomic
+---------------------------------------
+
+This would be especially useful for tinydrm:
+
+- Add a struct drm_rect dirty_clip to drm_crtc_state. When duplicating the
+ crtc state, clear that to the max values, x/y = 0 and w/h = MAX_INT, in
+ __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state().
+
+- Move tinydrm_merge_clips into drm_framebuffer.c, dropping the tinydrm_
+ prefix ofc and using drm_fb_. drm_framebuffer.c makes sense since this
+ is a function useful to implement the fb->dirty function.
+
+- Create a new drm_fb_dirty function which does essentially what e.g.
+ mipi_dbi_fb_dirty does. You can use e.g. drm_atomic_helper_update_plane as the
+ template. But instead of doing a simple full-screen plane update, this new
+ helper also sets crtc_state->dirty_clip to the right coordinates. And of
+ course it needs to check whether the fb is actually active (and maybe where),
+ so there's some book-keeping involved. There's also some good fun involved in
+ scaling things appropriately. For that case we might simply give up and
+ declare the entire area covered by the plane as dirty.
+
+Contact: Noralf Trønnes, Daniel Vetter
+
Fallout from atomic KMS
-----------------------
@@ -313,5 +337,51 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter
Driver Specific
===============
+tinydrm
+-------
+
+Tinydrm is the helper driver for really simple fb drivers. The goal is to make
+those drivers as simple as possible, so lots of room for refactoring:
+
+- backlight helpers, probably best to put them into a new drm_backlight.c.
+ This is because drivers/video is de-facto unmaintained. We could also
+ move drivers/video/backlight to drivers/gpu/backlight and take it all
+ over within drm-misc, but that's more work.
+
+- spi helpers, probably best put into spi core/helper code. Thierry said
+ the spi maintainer is fast&reactive, so shouldn't be a big issue.
+
+- extract the mipi-dbi helper (well, the non-tinydrm specific parts at
+ least) into a separate helper, like we have for mipi-dsi already. Or follow
+ one of the ideas for having a shared dsi/dbi helper, abstracting away the
+ transport details more.
+
+- tinydrm_lastclose could be drm_fb_helper_lastclose. Only thing we need
+ for that is to store the drm_fb_helper pointer somewhere in
+ drm_device->mode_config. And then we could roll that out to all the
+ drivers.
+
+- tinydrm_gem_cma_prime_import_sg_table should probably go into the cma
+ helpers, as a _vmapped variant (since not every driver needs the vmap).
+ And tinydrm_gem_cma_free_object could the be merged into
+ drm_gem_cma_free_object().
+
+- tinydrm_fb_create we could move into drm_simple_pipe, only need to add
+ the fb_create hook to drm_simple_pipe_funcs, which would again simplify a
+ bunch of things (since it gives you a one-stop vfunc for simple drivers).
+
+- Quick aside: The unregister devm stuff is kinda getting the lifetimes of
+ a drm_device wrong. Doesn't matter, since everyone else gets it wrong
+ too :-)
+
+- With the fbdev pointer in dev->mode_config we could also make
+ suspend/resume helpers entirely generic, at least if we add a
+ dev->mode_config.suspend_state. We could even provide a generic pm_ops
+ structure with those.
+
+- also rework the drm_framebuffer_funcs->dirty hook wire-up, see above.
+
+Contact: Noralf Trønnes, Daniel Vetter
+
Outside DRM
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