[PATCH V9 00/43] Color Pipeline API w/ VKMS

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 21 May 2025 15:48:00 -0400
Harry Wentland <harry.wentland at amd.com> wrote:

> On 2025-05-17 07:51, Xaver Hugl wrote:
> > Am Do., 15. Mai 2025 um 22:00 Uhr schrieb Leandro Ribeiro
> > <leandro.ribeiro at collabora.com>:  
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/15/25 15:39, Daniel Stone wrote:  
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 15 May 2025 at 19:02, Harry Wentland <harry.wentland at amd.com> wrote:  
> >>>> On 2025-05-15 13:19, Daniel Stone wrote:  
> >>>>> Yeah, the Weston patches are marching on. We've still been doing a
> >>>>> little bit of cleanup and prep work in the background to land them,
> >>>>> but we also can't land them until the kernel lands. None of that work
> >>>>> is material to the uAPI though: as said previously, the uAPI looks
> >>>>> completely solid and it's something we can definitely beneficially use
> >>>>> in Weston. (Even if we do need the obvious follow-ons for
> >>>>> post-blending as well ...)  
> >>>>
> >>>> We can't merge kernel uAPI without canonical userspace that uses it.
> >>>> To move forward we'll need a userspace to at least publish a branch
> >>>> that shows the use of this new uAPI.
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you have a public branch for the Weston work for this?  
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/merge_requests/1702
> >>> has been around for a little while now. There are some driver bugs
> >>> that Leandro commented on, but they don't seem material to the uAPI as
> >>> such?  
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Yes, there's nothing related to the API that is blocking us. It seemed
> >> very flexible and easy to use. The bugs that I've spotted are probably
> >> internal to AMD driver.
> >>
> >> I'd say that the Weston patches are converging nicely, we just need time
> >> to get them fully reviewed. We had a few preparation MR's to land
> >> before !1702, and now there's only one left (!1617).  
> > 
> > I also updated the KWin MR
> > (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/6600), it can now
> > use all the available properties and I think it's ready. I found two
> > issues with the kernel patches though:
> > - while attempting to set COLOR_ENCODING and COLOR_RANGE results in
> > the atomic commit being rejected, the existing values still get
> > applied if you use YCbCr-type buffers. I would've expected the color
> > pipeline to operate on the YUV values in that case - and leave
> > conversion to RGB up to the compositor adding the relevant matrix to
> > the pipeline  
> 
> AMD HW always operates on RGB values, so there'll always be an
> implicit conversion of YCbCr-type buffers to RGB.

Surely the transformation from YCbCr to RGB can be one that maps each
of Y, Cb and Cr channels to G, B and R ranges [0.0, 1.0]?

Of course, that's not identity transformation (Cb and Cr have domain
[-0.5, 0.5] or something like that) and R, B may not handle negative
values.

But if R and B channels can be negative too, then identity mapping
would be usable.

There will need to be a definition of how YCbCr enters the color
pipeline: the order of the channels and their domains. The rest can be
just more colorops.

We should be careful to allow limited range YUV formats to be
interpreted as full range to avoid clipping the sub-black and
super-white signal ranges. The color pipeline can be configured to deal
with those ranges as necessary.

> What we should
> do is reject YCbCr-type buffers with the color pipeline until we
> implement support for COLOR_ENCODING and COLOR_RANGE as a new
> CSC colorop.

Rejecting is fine, but is implementing COLOR_ENCODING and COLOR_RANGE
really a good idea instead of making the color pipelines handle them?

Wasn't the original plan to hide all such legacy plane properties when
userspace signals color pipeline support?


Thanks,
pq
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