[PATCH 4/4] drm/sti: atomic crtc/plane update

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 06:24:10 PDT 2015


On 31 July 2015 at 13:54, Benjamin Gaignard
<benjamin.gaignard at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hello Emil,
>
> This series of patches is the second step to convert sit driver to atomic,
> I have the first step few weeks ago.
> This time we really take benefit of the atomic helpers to make match
> correctly code and hardware split. To give you an example, before
> those patches, we were calling code driving hardware planes while
> setting crtc hardware...
>
> I agree that is a big change but we can to less then that to keep
> everything working.
> We have done quite many tests with modetest and weston to be sure we
> do not have regressions.
>
Fair enough. Just wanted to put it out on the table, as other teams
(with more developers and testers) do occasionally stumble upon corner
cases with atomics. I did not mean to tell you how you should do your
job, but mitigate the awkward cases like the one floating around a
couple of days ago.

> Both Vincent and I should be put in MAINTAINERS file, I will do a
> patch for that.
>
Great. Now if we can convince a few others to do the same ;-)

Thanks
Emil


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