[Nouveau] [RFC] tegra: Initial support

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 05:52:26PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Anything using EGL under Wayland - the simplest case would be
> weston-simple-egl. glmark2 also displays a broken window, but then
> crashes shortly after. With weston-simpe-egl I get the framerate
> feedback and can see the GPU performance counters moving as expected,
> indicating that the app is rendering correctly but that Weston gets
> the wrong buffer to display.

Okay, I'll need to look into this more closely. Thanks for reporting.

Thierry
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