Re: [PATCH 3/4] drm: Add helper for simple display pipeline

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 03:24:33PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> Provides helper functions for drivers that have a simple display
> pipeline. Plane, crtc and encoder are collapsed into one entity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> +static int drm_simple_kms_plane_atomic_check(struct drm_plane *plane,
> +					struct drm_plane_state *pstate)
> +{
> +	struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe;
> +	struct drm_crtc_state *cstate;
> +
> +	pipe = container_of(plane, struct drm_simple_display_pipe, plane);
> +	if (!pipe->funcs || !pipe->funcs->check)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	cstate = drm_atomic_get_existing_crtc_state(pstate->state,
> +						    &pipe->crtc);
> +
> +	return pipe->funcs->check(pipe, pstate, cstate);
> +}

Ok one thing I've missed here is that for most drivers this is way too
simple a check function, which means we'll end up with tons of duplicated
code. Things which the drm core allows, but simple pipelines all don't
really cope with:
- plane scaling
- disabling the plane without the crtc (i.e. scan out black)
- plane not sized to fill the entire hactive/vactive

There's a helper to do most of these checks for you -
drm_plane_helper_check_update. I think it'd be good to place a call for
that in here, before we call down into the driver's ->check callback. But
ofc before we return 0; we want these checks always done. And catch all
these things so that drivers never fall over this pitfall.

Noticed while discussing tilcdc atomic patches, since tilcdc could
probably use drm_simple_display_pipe too.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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