[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Intel-specific primary plane handling (v4)

[Matt Roper]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:14:22PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:18:30AM -0700, Matt Roper wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:47:37PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:13:42PM -0700, Matt Roper wrote:
> > ...
> > > > +	int ret;
> > > > +
> > > > +	/*
> > > > +	 * At the moment we use the same set of setplane restrictions as the
> > > > +	 * DRM primary plane helper, so go ahead and just call the helper if
> > > > +	 * the primary plane is already enabled.  We only need to take special
> > > > +	 * action if the primary plane is disabled (something i915 can do but
> > > > +	 * the generic helper can't).
> > > > +	 */
> > > > +	if (intel_crtc->primary_enabled)
> > > > +		return drm_primary_helper_update(plane, crtc, fb,
> > > > +						 crtc_x, crtc_y,
> > > > +						 crtc_w, crtc_h,
> > > > +						 src_x, src_y,
> > > > +						 src_w, src_h);
> > > 
> > > Why would we want to call that if we have a custom implementation
> > > anyway?
> > 
> > This was something Daniel requested on a previous patch iteration; even
> > though we're stuck duplicating most of the checks here for the !enabled
> > case, he still wanted to see us call into the helper for the enabled
> > case (although this will have to change in the future if/when we want to
> > start relaxing some of the tests that the helper does, such as plane
> > scaling).
> 
> To clarify my request: I was unhappy with all the duplicated tests we have
> and would like some way to share them with the plane helper code. If
> there's no sane way to do that, then I'm ok with duplication.
> 
> I'm not sure any more what was the issue with extracting the tests from
> the plane helper into a new function and reusing them with i915 though.
> -Daniel

Ah, okay.  I think I may have misunderstood what you were asking for the
previous time around.  Extracting the tests from the helper into a new
function should be doable; I'll include that in my next iteration.
Sorry for the confusion.


Matt

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Matt Roper
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