Re: [PATCH 5/5] drm/sun4i: Add support for the overscan profiles

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 03:56:30PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:59:27AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:29:38AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Create overscan profiles reducing the displayed zone.
> > > 
> > > For each TV standard (PAL and NTSC so far), we create 4 more reduced modes
> > > by steps of 5% that the user will be able to select.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > tbh I think if we agree to do this (and that still seems an open question)
> > I think there should be a generic helper to add these overscan modes with
> > increased porches. Anything that only depends upon the sink (and
> > overscanning is something the sink does) should imo be put into a suitable
> > helper library for everyone to share.
> > 
> > Or maybe even stash it into the probe helpers and call it for all TV
> > connectors. Definitely not a driver-private thing.
> 
> Last time we discussed it, my recollection was that you didn't want to
> have generic code for it, but I'd be happy to implement it.
> 
> I'll come up with something like that.

Well I can flip-flop around with the nonsense I'm sometimes emitting ;-)
Since you called me out, feel free to do whatever you want ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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