[PATCHv3 3/8] drm/omap: add support for manually updated displays

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Tony!

On 20 April 2018 at 15:25, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> [180420 10:21]:
>> On 20 April 2018 at 08:09, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com> wrote:
>> > It's actually not quite clear to me how manual update displays work with
>> > DRM...
>> >
>> > As far as I see, we have essentially two cases: 1) single buffering,
>> > where the userspace must set an area in the fb dirty, which then
>> > triggers the update, 2) multi buffering, which doesn't need fb dirty,
>> > but just a page flip which triggers the update.
>> >
>> > In the 2) case (which I think is the optimal case which all the modern
>> > apps should use), there's no need for delayed work or any work, and the
>> > code flow should be very similar to the auto-update model.
>>
>> Correct. There's been talk (and I think patches?) of adding a
>> per-plane dirty property, so userspace can as an optimisation inform
>> the kernel of the area changed between frames. But short of that, a
>> pageflip needs to trigger a full-plane update, with no dirtyfb
>> required.
>
> For per-plane dirty property patches, which ones do you refer to?

Here's the latest iteration of that series:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2018-April/171900.html
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> Then for xorg, there's my second attempt on fixing the command mode
> rotation at [0]. Not sure if that's enough for a fix?
>
> It seems not very efficient to me and I don't really know where
> the the per crtc dirty flag should be stored..

I try to deny all knowledge of X11 these days, I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Daniel