[Intel-gfx] [RFC 1/1] drm/i915: Added support for setting plane alpha through drm property

[Damien Lespiau]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:07PM +0000, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:14:41PM +0530, Sagar Arun Kamble wrote:
> > Gentle Reminder !!!
> > Kindly review and provide feedback
> 
> This main issue here is that we don't have yet the split between the
> CRTC and the primary plane in the DRM API.
> 
> Why is this a problem? because you need to define a 'plane-alpha'
> property on the CRTC and we'll have to maintain it forever and we don't
> really want that when a neat split between the CRTC and primary plane is
> not far off.
> 
> Work is ongoing on this, Matt bravely took the task:
> 
>   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-February/054719.html
> 
> With a v2 in the queue.
> 
> I believe we need to sort this first, before adding more plane properties.

Ah, didn't see the rest of the thread because my MUA decided to split
the thread between two directories. Scrap that mail :)

-- 
Damien