[PATCH hwc v2 00/18] Add scene flattening support

Alexandru-Cosmin Gheorghe Alexandru-Cosmin.Gheorghe at arm.com
Fri Apr 13 09:52:55 UTC 2018


Hi John,

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 04:18:54PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> 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?
> 

Sorry no, but they should apply without conflict on master branch.
> thanks
> -john

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Cheers,
Alex G


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