[Intel-gfx] [RFC PATCH 0/3] i915 writeback private framework

[Suraj Kandpal]

A patch series was floated in the drm mailing list which aimed to change
the drm_connector and drm_encoder fields to pointer in the
drm_connector_writeback structure, this received a huge pushback from
the community but since i915 expects each connector present in the
drm_device list to be a intel_connector but drm_writeback framework.
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20220202081702.22119-1-suraj.kandpal@intel.com/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20220202085429.22261-6-suraj.kandpal@intel.com/
This forces us to use a drm_connector which is not embedded in
intel_connector the current drm_writeback framework becomes very
unfeasible to us as it would mean a lot of checks at a lot of places
to take into account the above issue.Since no one had an issue with
encoder field being changed into a pointer it was decided to break the
connector and encoder pointer changes into two different series.The
encoder field changes is currently being worked upon by Abhinav Kumar
[3]https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/list/?series=633565
In the meantime for i915 to start using the writeback functionality we
came up with a interim solution to own writeback pipeline bypassing one
provided by drm which is what these patches do.
Note: these are temp patches till we figure out how we can either change
drm core writeback to work with our intel_connector structure or find a
different solution which allows us to work with the current
drm_writeback framework

Suraj Kandpal (3):
  drm/i915: Creating writeback pipeline to bypass drm_writeback
    framework
  drm/i915: Define WD trancoder for i915
  drm/i915: Enabling WD Transcoder

 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile                 |   2 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_acpi.c     |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c  |  89 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.h  |  15 +
 .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_types.h    |  18 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dpll.c     |   3 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_opregion.c |   3 +
 .../gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wb_connector.c | 296 ++++++
 .../gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wb_connector.h |  99 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.c       | 978 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.h       |  82 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h               |   5 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c               |   8 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c               |   7 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h               | 139 +++
 15 files changed, 1742 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wb_connector.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wb_connector.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.h

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