From patchwork Fri Jun 9 13:44:27 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Geert Uytterhoeven X-Patchwork-Id: 13273975 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48E4EC7EE29 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0922A10E6AA; Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from michel.telenet-ops.be (michel.telenet-ops.be [IPv6:2a02:1800:110:4::f00:18]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC1AE10E133 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:44:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ramsan.of.borg ([IPv6:2a02:1810:ac12:ed30:a1e2:1b31:cba3:390d]) by michel.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id 71kZ2A00512zQ4r061kZpM; Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:44:42 +0200 Received: from rox.of.borg ([192.168.97.57]) by ramsan.of.borg with esmtp (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1q7cPS-008La3-2T; Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:44:33 +0200 Received: from geert by rox.of.borg with local (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1q7cPp-00GCTQ-3L; Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:44:33 +0200 From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Daniel Vetter , Jonathan Corbet , Jyri Sarha , Tomi Valkeinen , Laurent Pinchart , Bagas Sanjaya Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] drm/todo: Add atomic modesetting references Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 15:44:27 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Javier Martinez Canillas , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" The section about converting existing KMS drivers to atomic modesetting mentions the existence of a conversion guide, but does not reference it. While the guide is old and rusty, it still contains useful information, so add a link to it. Also link to the LWN.net articles that give an overview about the atomic mode setting design. While at it, remove the reference to unconverted virtual HW drivers, as they've been converted. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart --- v2: - Add Reviewed-by, - Drop double space after full stop, - Use footnotes for references, - Remore reference to unconverted virtual HW drivers. --- Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 68bdafa0284f55f6..6c328613c049fc1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -49,14 +49,18 @@ converted over. Modern compositors like Wayland or Surfaceflinger on Android really want an atomic modeset interface, so this is all about the bright future. -There is a conversion guide for atomic and all you need is a GPU for a -non-converted driver (again virtual HW drivers for KVM are still all -suitable). +There is a conversion guide for atomic [1]_ and all you need is a GPU for a +non-converted driver. The "Atomic mode setting design overview" series [2]_ +[3]_ at LWN.net can also be helpful. As part of this drivers also need to convert to universal plane (which means exposing primary & cursor as proper plane objects). But that's much easier to do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks. + .. [1] https://blog.ffwll.ch/2014/11/atomic-modeset-support-for-kms-drivers.html + .. [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/653071/ + .. [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/653466/ + Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Advanced