Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] drm/tegra: dc: Dedicate overlay plane to cursor on older Tegra's

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 04:00:25AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> Older Tegra's do not support RGBA format for the cursor, but instead
>> overlay plane could be used for it. Since there is no much use for the
>> overlays on a regular desktop and HW-accelerated cursor is much better
>> than a SW cursor, let's dedicate one overlay plane to the mouse cursor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Applied. I'm not entirely happy that we need to sacrifice one of the
> overlay windows for this, but you're right, it's probably okay given
> how little planes are used on a regular desktop.
>
> We could always provide a module parameter to switch this on and off
> if that's ever something we want.

The idea with universal planes is that you can (at least try to) use
the cursor overlay plane as a normal plane. It is only a hint to
userspace, there's no requirement anywhere in atomic that you only use
it as a cursor. That way desktops get a good hint for what the cursor
plane should be, everyone else can still use all the planes.
-Daniel
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