[PATCH 1/2] Revert "drm: Add and handle new aspect ratios in DRM layer"

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Tue Nov 15 13:54:42 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:00:04AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:30:47PM +0530, Sharma, Shashank wrote:
> > On 11/15/2016 2:21 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:26:08PM +0530, Sharma, Shashank wrote:
> > > > In any case, I guess addition of a cap for aspect ratio should fix the
> > > > current objections for this implementation.
> > > > 
> > > > And I will keep it 0 by default, so that no aspect ratio information is
> > > > added until userspace sets the cap to 1 on its own.
> > > Note that cap = needs new userspace.
> > > -Daniel
> > I guess you mean a new libdrm, so yes, I will add this new cap in libdrm.
> > Is that what you mean ?
> 
> Full stack solution, including enabling in an Xorg driver (or somewhere
> else, we also have drm_hwcomposer as an option).
> 
> And because that's probably going to take forever I'm leaning towards
> revert again. Ville?

Yeah I guess we'll need to push the revert to avoid the regression.
Trying to put in new client caps and whatnot after -rc5 doesn't seem
like a viable option to me.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC


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