[RFC 0/9] nuclear pageflip

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:12:35PM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Rob Clark <rob.clark at linaro.org> wrote:
> > note that the test phase doesn't need vblank events, and also
> > shouldn't -EBUSY if there is still a pending flip[*], so I'd propose
> > that however we go about pageflip (one super-ioctl, or one per crtc),
> > we could use the atomic-modeset ioctl for the test step
> 
> actually, I think I take this back..  one thing that was discussed on
> IRC, but didn't make it to this email thread is the behavior of
> non-specified properties.  What I am thinking:
> 
> modeset: unspecified properties revert to default
> pageflip: unspecified properties preserve current value

Why on earth would you want to revert stuff to default? That's only
going to make the code more complex.

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