[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: track sprite coverage and disable primary plane if possible

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Nov 16 17:05:50 CET 2011


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 21:22, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> To save power when the sprite is full screen, we can disable the primary
> plane on the same pipe.  Track the sprite status and enable/disable the
> primary opportunistically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes

Imo the indirection is overkill because afaics there's no difference.
And in my experience this will only get in the way when later hw
_really_ needs some abstraction (*cough* intel_ringbuffer.c *cough*.
Can we just kill it?
-Daniel
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