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

[Harry Wentland]

On 2017-01-16 03:39 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 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.
>

This change is not about introducing the async flag but cleaning up the 
legacy helpers to make sure drivers that currently use it through the 
legacy IOCTLs can benefit from the helpers and not have to roll their own.

If the problem is with the pflip_flags, wouldn't drivers still need that 
after moving userspace to the atomic IOCTL?

I don't disagree with you on having userspace move to atomic but I don't 
expect to see all userspace drivers move to atomic in the next couple 
months. Why not clean this up in the meantime?

Harry

>> 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(-)
>