[PATCH xf86-video-amdgpu 0/7] Enabling Color Management - Round 3

[Leo Li]

On 2018-06-15 02:57 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 2018-06-14 09:49 PM, Leo Li wrote:
>> On 2018-06-14 12:57 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>> On 2018-06-01 06:03 PM, sunpeng.li at amd.com wrote:
>>>> From: "Leo (Sunpeng) Li" <sunpeng.li at amd.com>
>>>>
>>>> This ended up being different enough from v2 to warrant a new
>>>> patchset. Per
>>>> Michel's suggestions, there have been various optimizations and
>>>> cleanups.
>>>> Here's what's changed:
>>>>
>>>> * Cache DRM color management property IDs at pre-init,
>>>>       * instead of querying DRM each time we need to modify color
>>>> properties.
>>>>
>>>> * Remove drmmode_update_cm_props().
>>>>       * Update color properties in drmmode_output_get_property() instead.
>>>>       * This also makes old calls to update_cm_props redundant.
>>>>
>>>> * Get rid of fake CRTCs.
>>>>       * Previously, we were allocating a fake CRTC to configure color
>>>> props on
>>>>         outputs that don't have a CRTC.
>>>>       * Instead, rr_configure_and_change_cm_property() can be easily
>>>> modified to
>>>>         accept NULL CRTCs.
>>>
>>> Is it currently ever the case in the hardware / kernel, or expected to
>>> ever be, that colour management is supported for some but not all CRTCs
>>> of a GPU?
>>>
>>
>> This was more of an effort to align with what DRM allows, which is
>> per-CRTC cm support and LUT sizes. I'm not aware of any current or
>> future hardware where this is the case though. It was a relatively
>> simple thing to implement, so I thought, might as well.
>>
>>> If not, the LUT sizes could be tracked once instead of per CRTC, and at
>>> least the (DE)GAMMA_LUT_SIZE properties could always return the proper
>>> values, even if the output currently isn't associated with a CRTC.
>>>
>>
>> My original take was that it's best to support what the framework
>> allows. But it does sound like this would have more utility to the
>> client, and simplify the code as well.
> 
> Right. In contrast to the generic modesetting driver, we can take
> advantage of properties of our GPUs in this driver.
> 

Ping!

FYI, all the new patches are v2, with the exception of 6/7, which is a
v3. (On second thought, should have started a new thread :) )

Leo

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