[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/4] drm: add picture aspect ratio flags

[Sharma, Shashank]

Thanks Daniel.

My comments, inline.

Regards
Shashank
On 8/4/2016 4:06 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 03:46:09PM +0530, Sharma, Shashank wrote:
>> Hello Emil,
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> I have got mixed opinion on this.
>>
>> IMHO we should expose them to userspace too, as UI agents like Hardware
>> composer/X/Wayland must know what does these
>>
>> flags means, so that they can display them on the end user screen (like
>> settings menu)
>>
>> But few people even think thats its too complex to be exposed to userspace
>> agents.
>>
>> So your suggestions are welcome.
> These are flags for the internal mode representation, not for the uapi
> one. They really don't belong into the uapi header, but instead into
> include/drm/drm_modes.h. I.e. I fully concur with Emil.
> -Daniel
Please correct me if I am missing anything, but In that case, how will 
HWC/X apply a modeset
1920x1080 at 60 16:9 (Not 1920x1080 at 60 4:3)

Regards
Shashank
>> Regards
>> Shashank
>>
>> On 8/4/2016 3:12 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>> On 3 August 2016 at 11:56, Shashank Sharma <shashank.sharma at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> --- a/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
>>>> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
>>>> +
>>>> +/* Aspect ratio flag bitmask (4 bits 22:19) */
>>>> +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_PARMASK                  (0x0F<<19)
>>>> +#define  DRM_MODE_FLAG_PARNONE \
>>>> +                       (DRM_MODE_PICTURE_ASPECT_NONE << 19)
>>>> +#define  DRM_MODE_FLAG_PAR4_3 \
>>>> +                       (DRM_MODE_PICTURE_ASPECT_4_3 << 19)
>>>> +#define  DRM_MODE_FLAG_PAR16_9 \
>>>> +                       (DRM_MODE_PICTURE_ASPECT_16_9 << 19)
>>>>
>>> Afaict all these flags are internal/implementation specific thus we
>>> shouldn't expose them to userspace. Right ?
>>>
>>> -Emil
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