[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 37/58] drm/i915: extract intel_set_config_compute_mode_changes

[Jesse Barnes]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:12:54 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:

> This computes what exactly changed in the modeset configuration, i.e.
> whether a full modeset is required or only an update of the
> framebuffer base address or no change at all.
> 
> In the future we might add more checks for e.g. when only the output
> mode changed, so that we could do a minimal modeset for outputs that
> support this. Like the lvds/eDP panels where we only need to update
> the panel fitter.

Yeah this can definitely be improved when it's part of the driver.

Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center