Re: [PATCH v8 4/4] NOTFORMERGE: drm/logicvc: Add plane colorkey support

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Hi,

On Wed 23 Dec 20, 18:31, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> FWIW this is something I added, hoping it was going to get used at
> some point, but I never followed up with support in xf86-video-nouveau
> for Xv. At this point, I'm not sure I ever will. I encoded the
> "enabled" part into the value with a high bit (1<<24) -- not sure that
> was such a great idea. All NVIDIA hardware supports colorkey (and not
> actual alpha, until the very latest GPUs - Volta/Turing families),
> although my implementation only covers the pre-G80 series (i.e. DX9
> and earlier GPUs - pre-2008). Should a determination of usefulness be
> reached, it would be easy to implement on the remainder though.

Interesting to know!

Regarding a generic colorkey property, there was a discussion under thread:
drm: Add generic colorkey properties for display planes

and the latest proposal (RFC v4) can be found here:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-tegra/patch/20180807172202.1961-2-digetx@xxxxxxxxx/

It looks like this was much more complex than anticipated and the series
was more or less abandonned. I didn't feel like picking it up in my logicvc
series so I kept the colorkey patch as not for merge.

If someone's up for picking the proposal and continuing the discussion,
I could provide insight on how it would fit with logicvc though!

Cheers,

Paul

> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:20 PM Simon Ser <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > nouveau already has something for colorkey:
> > https://drmdb.emersion.fr/properties/4008636142/colorkey
> >
> > I know this is marked "not for merge", but it would be nice to discuss
> > with them and come up with a standardized property.

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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