[Nouveau] [PATCH 0/4] Allow ASYNC flip with atomic helpers.

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Andrey,

Thank you for the patches.

On Monday 16 Jan 2017 10:44:54 Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> This series is a folow-up on
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9501787/
> 
> The first patch makes changes to atomic helpers
> to allow for drives with ASYNC flip support to use them.
> Patches 2 and 3 are to use this in AMDGPU/DC and
> patch 4 is possible cleanup in nouveau/kms who seems
> to have the duplicate the helper as we did to support
> ASYNC flips.

I have my doubts regarding this. I'd much rather see userspace moving to the 
atomic API instead of extending support for legacy APIs.

> Andrey Grodzovsky (4):
>   drm/atomic: Save flip flags in drm_plane_state
>   drm/amdgpu: Remove flip_flag from amdgpu_crtc
>   drm/amd/display: Switch to using atomic_helper for flip.
>   drm/nouveau/kms/nv50: Switch to using atomic helper for flip.
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_mode.h           |  1 -
>  .../drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_types.c    | 92 -------------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c                | 10 +--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c             | 77 ++----------------
>  include/drm/drm_plane.h                            |  8 ++
>  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart