[PATCH 1/3] drm/todo: Add atomic modesetting references

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 13:32:05 UTC 2023


On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 11:11:34AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> -There is a conversion guide for atomic and all you need is a GPU for a
> +There is a conversion guide for atomic[1] and all you need is a GPU for a
>  non-converted driver (again virtual HW drivers for KVM are still all
> -suitable).
> +suitable).  The "Atomic mode setting design overview" series [2][3] at
> +LWN.net can also be helpful.
>  
>  As part of this drivers also need to convert to universal plane (which means
>  exposing primary & cursor as proper plane objects). But that's much easier to
>  do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks.
>  
> +  - [1] https://blog.ffwll.ch/2014/11/atomic-modeset-support-for-kms-drivers.html
> +  - [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/653071/
> +  - [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/653466/
> +

Looks like footnotes better serve these links above:

---- >8 ----
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 51eb67f5268c5e..6ea92f48a2e21c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -49,18 +49,18 @@ converted over. Modern compositors like Wayland or Surfaceflinger on Android
 really want an atomic modeset interface, so this is all about the bright
 future.
 
-There is a conversion guide for atomic[1] and all you need is a GPU for a
+There is a conversion guide for atomic [1]_ and all you need is a GPU for a
 non-converted driver (again virtual HW drivers for KVM are still all
-suitable).  The "Atomic mode setting design overview" series [2][3] at
+suitable).  The "Atomic mode setting design overview" series [2]_ [3]_ at
 LWN.net can also be helpful.
 
 As part of this drivers also need to convert to universal plane (which means
 exposing primary & cursor as proper plane objects). But that's much easier to
 do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks.
 
-  - [1] https://blog.ffwll.ch/2014/11/atomic-modeset-support-for-kms-drivers.html
-  - [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/653071/
-  - [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/653466/
+  .. [1] https://blog.ffwll.ch/2014/11/atomic-modeset-support-for-kms-drivers.html
+  .. [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/653071/
+  .. [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/653466/
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
 
Thanks.

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