[Intel-gfx] Request for feedback : New Panel-fitter property for connectors

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:13:53AM +0000, Goel, Akash wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> We are planning to expose a new panel fitter property for the connectors. 
> We have some use cases like a full screen video playback, where we can flip the frame buffer of any size irrespective of the pipe timings and enable the panel fitter to do scaling instead of using the GPU. 
> Other use case is the Clone mode, where we can use the composed output of the LFP on the external display, with panel fitter enabled, to avoid GPU composition.
> 
> Please provide inputs/comments on the same.
> 
> Best regards
> Akash
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goel, Akash 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:12 PM
> To: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Goel, Akash; G, Pallavi
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Added a new Panel-fitter property for connectors
> 
> From: Akash Goel <akash.goel at intel.com>
> 
> Added a Panel-fitter enable/disable property support for the connectors.

You are missing why you cannot reuse the connector property "scaling".
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre