[PATCH] drm: DON'T require each CRTC to have a unique primary plane

Paul Cercueil paul at crapouillou.net
Mon Mar 29 15:15:28 UTC 2021


Hi Maxime,

Le lun. 29 mars 2021 à 16:07, Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> a 
écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 11:22:14AM +0000, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>>  The ingenic-drm driver has two mutually exclusive primary planes
>>  already; so the fact that a CRTC must have one and only one primary
>>  plane is an invalid assumption.
> 
> I mean, no? It's been documented for a while that a CRTC should only
> have a single primary, so I'd say that the invalid assumption was that
> it was possible to have multiple primary planes for a CRTC.

Documented where?

I did read the doc of "enum drm_plane_type" in <drm/drm_plane.h>, and 
the DRM_PLANE_TYPE_PRIMARY describes my two planes, so I went with that.

-Paul

> Since it looks like you have two mutually exclusive planes, just 
> expose
> one and be done with it?
> 
> Maxime




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