[RFC PATCH 1/4] rust: drm: add minimal KMS bindings for simple-display-pipe drivers

From: Mike Lothian

Date: Wed Jun 17 2026 - 11:16:55 EST


The Rust DRM abstractions currently cover GEM and the device/driver
registration boilerplate, but expose nothing of the KMS (mode-setting)
API, so a Rust driver cannot bring up a display pipeline without
dropping to C. Add the minimum needed to drive an atomic mode-setting
pipeline built on the drm_simple_display_pipe helper (one CRTC + a
primary plane + encoder), the same path simpledrm/gud/udl use.

Two pieces:

- bindings_helper.h: pull in the KMS headers (drm_atomic_helper,
drm_connector, drm_gem_atomic_helper, drm_gem_framebuffer_helper,
drm_managed, drm_modes, drm_modeset_helper_vtables,
drm_probe_helper, drm_simple_kms_helper) so bindgen emits the
drm_simple_display_pipe, drm_connector, drm_display_mode and helper
bindings a KMS driver calls (drm_simple_display_pipe_init,
drm_connector_init, drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes,
drm_gem_fb_create, drm_cvt_mode and the drm_atomic_helper_* family).

- drm::driver: add FEAT_MODESET / FEAT_ATOMIC and the matching
Driver::FEAT_MODESET / Driver::FEAT_ATOMIC associated consts, folded
into compute_features() exactly like the existing FEAT_RENDER. They
default to false, so GEM-only drivers are unaffected.

No safe CRTC/plane/connector wrappers are added here; this is the raw
binding surface a driver needs to call the C helpers itself, and is
meant to be superseded by the in-progress safe KMS layer. The raw
drm_device pointer those helpers need is exposed by a separate follow-up
patch ("expose drm::Device::as_raw()") so the escape hatch can be
reviewed on its own.

Signed-off-by: Mike Lothian <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude-Code]
---
rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h | 9 +++++++++
rust/kernel/drm/device.rs | 8 ++++++++
rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs | 17 +++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
index 14671e1825bb..877f82b927a0 100644
--- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
+++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
@@ -32,13 +32,22 @@

#include <linux/acpi.h>
#include <linux/gpu_buddy.h>
+#include <drm/drm_atomic_helper.h>
+#include <drm/drm_connector.h>
#include <drm/drm_device.h>
#include <drm/drm_drv.h>
#include <drm/drm_file.h>
#include <drm/drm_gem.h>
+#include <drm/drm_gem_atomic_helper.h>
+#include <drm/drm_gem_framebuffer_helper.h>
#include <drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h>
#include <drm/drm_gpuvm.h>
#include <drm/drm_ioctl.h>
+#include <drm/drm_managed.h>
+#include <drm/drm_modes.h>
+#include <drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h>
+#include <drm/drm_probe_helper.h>
+#include <drm/drm_simple_kms_helper.h>
#include <kunit/test.h>
#include <linux/auxiliary_bus.h>
#include <linux/bitmap.h>
diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
index 477cf771fb10..1d3319b713e2 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ const fn compute_features() -> u32 {
features |= drm::driver::FEAT_RENDER;
}

+ if T::FEAT_MODESET {
+ features |= drm::driver::FEAT_MODESET;
+ }
+
+ if T::FEAT_ATOMIC {
+ features |= drm::driver::FEAT_ATOMIC;
+ }
+
features
}

diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
index 25f7e233884d..6a79594510fd 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
pub(crate) const FEAT_GEM: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_GEM;
/// Driver supports render nodes, i.e.: /dev/dri/renderDXX devices.
pub(crate) const FEAT_RENDER: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_RENDER;
+/// Driver supports mode setting (KMS).
+pub(crate) const FEAT_MODESET: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_MODESET;
+/// Driver supports atomic mode setting.
+pub(crate) const FEAT_ATOMIC: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_ATOMIC;

/// Information data for a DRM Driver.
pub struct DriverInfo {
@@ -131,6 +135,19 @@ pub trait Driver {
/// usable from the render node (i.e. marked DRM_RENDER_ALLOW), whereas
/// userspace processes using the master node can invoke any ioctl.
const FEAT_RENDER: bool = false;
+
+ /// Sets the `DRIVER_MODESET` feature for this driver.
+ ///
+ /// When enabled, the driver advertises kernel mode-setting (KMS): it owns a
+ /// `drm_mode_config` and drives CRTCs, planes, encoders and connectors. Leave
+ /// `false` for a render-only (GEM) driver.
+ const FEAT_MODESET: bool = false;
+
+ /// Sets the `DRIVER_ATOMIC` feature for this driver.
+ ///
+ /// When enabled, the driver advertises the atomic mode-setting uAPI. It only
+ /// has an effect together with [`Driver::FEAT_MODESET`].
+ const FEAT_ATOMIC: bool = false;
}

/// The registration type of a `drm::Device`.
--
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