[PATCH v5 02/17] drm: add YCBCR 420 capability identifier

Sharma, Shashank shashank.sharma at intel.com
Wed Jul 5 03:15:07 UTC 2017


Regards

Shashank


On 7/4/2017 9:25 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 07:41:49PM +0530, Shashank Sharma wrote:
>> This patch adds a bool variable (ycbcr_420_allowed) in the drm connector
>> structure. While handling the EDID from HDMI 2.0 sinks, its important to
>> know if the source is capable of handling YCBCR 420 outputs or not, so that
>> a lot of work can be done/bypassed based on this information. One such
>> example is adding YCBCR420 only modes.
>>
>> If the driver knows that this source is not HDMI 2.0 capable, it will
>> not add YCBCR420-only modes while adding EDID modes, and will prevent
>> any runtime modeset failures.
>>
>> This variable will be initialized from I915 driver in the next patch
>> and will be used in the EDID handling for HDMI 2.0 specific features,
>> in this same series.
>>
>> V3: introduced the new variable
>> V4: changed variable name from is_hdmi2_src to ycbcr_420_allowed (Ville)
>> V4: adding r-b from Neil.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Shashank Sharma <shashank.sharma at intel.com>
>> ---
>>   include/drm/drm_connector.h | 9 +++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_connector.h b/include/drm/drm_connector.h
>> index ae5b7dc..8a78aaa 100644
>> --- a/include/drm/drm_connector.h
>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_connector.h
>> @@ -726,6 +726,15 @@ struct drm_connector {
>>   	bool interlace_allowed;
>>   	bool doublescan_allowed;
>>   	bool stereo_allowed;
>> +
>> +	/**
>> +	 * @ycbcr_420_allowed : This bool indicates if this connector is
>> +	 * capable of handling YCBCR 420 output. While parsing the EDID
>> +	 * blocks, its very helpful to know, if the source is capable of
>> +	 * handling YCBCR 420 outputs.
>> +	 */
>> +	bool ycbcr_420_allowed;
>> +
> This patch should be squashed with the patch that actually needs this flag.
This is used in patch 4, to filter out 420_only modes. So I should merge 
it there right ?
- Shashank
>>   	/**
>>   	 * @registered: Is this connector exposed (registered) with userspace?
>>   	 * Protected by @mutex.
>> -- 
>> 2.7.4
>>
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