[Nouveau] [RFC] tegra: Initial support

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:14:24PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On 11/28/2014 01:39 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >Tegra K1 and later use a GPU that can be driven by the Nouveau driver.
> >But the GPU is a pure render node and has no display engine, hence the
> >scanout needs to happen on the Tegra display hardware. The GPU and the
> >display engine each have a separate DRM device node exposed by the
> >kernel.
> >
> >To make the setup appear as a single device, this driver instantiates
> >a Nouveau screen with each instance of a Tegra screen and forwards GPU
> >requests to the Nouveau screen. For purposes of scanout it will import
> >buffers created on the GPU into the display driver. Handles that
> >userspace requests are those of the display driver so that they can be
> >used to create framebuffers.
> >
> >This has been tested with some GBM test programs, as well as kmscube and
> >weston. All of those run without modifications, but I'm sure there is a
> >lot that can be improved.
> 
> Tested with kmscube and Weston and I can confirm this works. However, EGL
> clients inside Weston have their window filled with garbage (they seem to
> run fine otherwise). Do you also experience this?

To be honest, that wasn't part of my set of test cases. I had assumed
that since Weston could composite buffers into a final scan out buffer
everything else would just work as well. Do you have any particular
demos that aren't working?

Thierry
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