[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t v9 0/4] Add support for testing writeback connectors

[Liviu Dudau]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 01:44:06PM -0400, Rodrigo Siqueira wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

Can this series be merged? Neither me nor Brian managed to get accepted
in the i-g-t committers list, so I cannot push it.

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
> A couple of months ago I updated and re-submitted a patchset made by
> Brian Starkey and Liviu Dudau for adding a writeback connectors test to
> IGT. It is important to highlight that DRM already have writeback
> connectors support, which is a way to expose in DRM the hardware
> functionality from display engines that allows writing back into memory
> the result of DE's composition of supported planes.
> 
> After I resubmitted the patchset, Simon Ser provides a long and detailed
> review for all of the patches (thanks Simon). Additionally, Maxime
> Ripard tested the previous series in an ARM32 architecture and provided
> his feedback for making this patchset portable (thanks Maxime). I
> finally had time to go through all the details and prepare this new
> version. Follows some notes:
> 
> 1. Patchset author
> 
> Brian Starkey is the original author of this patchset, and I'm just
> trying to upstream his changes. Note that during this patch submission,
> the mail server from google going to overwrite Brian's mail by mine;
> this happens on the mail server side for avoiding malicious users to
> send emails as someone else. Note that I could spend time figuring out
> how to fix it, but I think this is not worth it since I can fix it during
> the merge process (if it got accepted).
> 
> 2. Drop the clone commits from the series
> 
> After Simon's review, we decided to drop the last two patches of the
> original series since it was related to cloning output and VKMS does
> not support it yet. However, after we finish this series, I can try
> to take a look at this feature or maybe propose it as a GSoC/Outreachy
> project.
> 
> Most of the changes happened in the second patch.
> 
> 3. Cross-platform improvements
> 
> 4. Add test description and remove some unnecessary code
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Brian Starkey (4):
>   lib/igt_kms: Add writeback support
>   kms_writeback: Add initial writeback tests
>   lib: Add function to hash a framebuffer
>   kms_writeback: Add writeback-check-output
> 
>  lib/igt_fb.c           |  63 ++++++
>  lib/igt_fb.h           |   2 +
>  lib/igt_kms.c          |  52 +++++
>  lib/igt_kms.h          |   6 +
>  tests/Makefile.sources |   1 +
>  tests/kms_writeback.c  | 450 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/meson.build      |   1 +
>  7 files changed, 575 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tests/kms_writeback.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.28.0
> 

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