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.
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Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes from v4:
- Changes suggested by Pekka
Changes from v3:
- Roll back to the v2
- Add Simon and Pekka in Cc
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 | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
index 87e5023e3f55..47994890fd1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
@@ -463,6 +463,36 @@ 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:
+
+* It must be standardized, documenting:
+
+ * The full, exact, name string;
+ * If the property is an enum, all the valid variants name;
+ * What values are accepted, and what these values mean;
+ * What the property does and how it can be used;
+ * How the property might interact with other, existing properties.
+
+* It must provide a generic helper in the core code to register that
+ property on the object it attaches to.
+
+* Its 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.
+
+* Its initial state must match the behavior prior to the property
+ introduction. This might be a fixed value matching what the hardware
+ does, or it may be inherited from the state the firmware left the
+ system in during boot.
+
+* An IGT test must be submitted where reasonable.
+
Property Types and Blob Property Support
----------------------------------------
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2.31.1
