Re: [PATCH] Add virtio gpu driver.

[Emil Velikov]

On 25 May 2016 at 17:40, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> > > Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >
>>> > Standard request from my side for new drm drivers (especially if they're
>>> > this simple): Can you please update the drivers to latest drm internal
>>> > interfaces, i.e. using universal planes and atomic?
>>>
>>> Up'n'running.  Incremental patch:
>>>
>>> https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/linux/commit/?h=virtio-gpu-2d&id=b8edf4f38a1ec5a50f6ac8948521a12f862d3d5a
>>>
>>> v2 coming, but I'll go over the other reviews first.
>>
>> Looking good. Wrt pageflip the current MO is to handroll it in your
>> driver, common approach is to use the msm async commit implementation
>> msm_atomic_commit. The issue is simply that right now there's still no
>> useable generic vblank callback support (drm_irq.c is a mess) hence why
>> the core helpers don't support async flips yet.
>
> I guess I didn't do a good job at looking at your v2: Cursor is still
> using legacy interfaces and not a proper plane. Would be awesome if
> you could fix that up. Atomic drivers really shouldn't use the legacy
> cursor interfaces any more at all.

Wild idea:
Worth adding if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_ATOMIC)  {
printf("abort abort"); return; }
style of checks for the legacy (preatomic) kms helpers ?

Or does it feel like an overkill ?

-Emil