[PATCH hwc v2 00/18] Add scene flattening support
John Stultz
john.stultz at linaro.org
Thu Apr 12 23:18:54 UTC 2018
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Alexandru Gheorghe
<alexandru-cosmin.gheorghe at arm.com> wrote:
> Flattening a scene in order to reduce memory consumption it's an idea
> which had been floating around on irc and mailing list several times,
> this patchset adds support for flattening a scene using a writeback
> connector, the latest version of the kernel patches could be found
> here [1].
>
> v1 for this patch series could be found here [2].
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Add support to use either the same crtc or a dedicated one, this
> had been discussed on irc here [3].
> - Add support for parsing more than one drm node, this is triggered
> by the fact the on Mali DP each device has it's own driver, so
> it's needed in order to use a dedicate crtc for flattening.
> - Parse encoder possible_clones to detect if writeback could
> function simultaneously with the display connector.
> - Fixes for some bugs discovered while working on this.
> - Split changes in multiple patches.
Just for testing w/ other devices currently using drm_hwcomposer, do
you happen to have the patchset in a public git tree somewhere?
thanks
-john
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