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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2019-10-30 06:10:59 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2019-10-30 06:11:47 +1000
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parentMerge tag 'drm-next-5.5-2019-10-25' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next (diff)
parentdrm/tegra: Move drm_dp_link helpers to Tegra DRM (diff)
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Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2019-10-24-2' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next
drm-misc-next for 5.5: UAPI Changes: -syncobj: allow querying the last submitted timeline value (David) -fourcc: explicitly defineDRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN as unsigned (Adam) -omap: revert the OMAP_BO_* flags that were added -- no userspace (Sean) Cross-subsystem Changes: -MAINTAINERS: add Mihail as komeda co-maintainer (Mihail) Core Changes: -edid: a few cleanups, add AVI infoframe bar info (Ville) -todo: remove i915 device_link item and add difficulty levels (Daniel) -dp_helpers: add a few new helpers to parse dpcd (Thierry) Driver Changes: -gma500: fix a few memory disclosure leaks (Kangjie) -qxl: convert to use the new drm_gem_object_funcs.mmap (Gerd) -various: open code dp_link helpers in preparation for helper removal (Thierry) Cc: Chunming Zhou <david1.zhou@amd.com> Cc: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> Cc: Mihail Atanassov <mihail.atanassov@arm.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> From: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191024155535.GA10294@art_vandelay
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gpu')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/todo.rst119
2 files changed, 100 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst
index 3868008db8a9..9668a7fe2408 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst
@@ -77,9 +77,6 @@ Atomic State Reset and Initialization
Atomic State Helper Reference
-----------------------------
-.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.h
- :internal:
-
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c
:export:
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 8dc147c93c9c..73c51b5a0997 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ TODO list
This section contains a list of smaller janitorial tasks in the kernel DRM
graphics subsystem useful as newbie projects. Or for slow rainy days.
+Difficulty
+----------
+
+To make it easier task are categorized into different levels:
+
+Starter: Good tasks to get started with the DRM subsystem.
+
+Intermediate: Tasks which need some experience with working in the DRM
+subsystem, or some specific GPU/display graphics knowledge. For debugging issue
+it's good to have the relevant hardware (or a virtual driver set up) available
+for testing.
+
+Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem
+and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and
+testing.
+
Subsystem-wide refactorings
===========================
@@ -20,6 +36,8 @@ implementations), and then remove it.
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
+Level: Intermediate
+
Convert existing KMS drivers to atomic modesetting
--------------------------------------------------
@@ -38,6 +56,8 @@ do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks.
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
+Level: Advanced
+
Clean up the clipped coordination confusion around planes
---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -50,6 +70,8 @@ helpers.
Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers
+Level: Advanced
+
Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers
----------------------------------------------------
@@ -63,6 +85,8 @@ events for atomic commits correctly. But fixing these bugs is good anyway.
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
+Level: Advanced
+
Fallout from atomic KMS
-----------------------
@@ -91,6 +115,8 @@ interfaces to fix these issues:
Contact: Daniel Vetter
+Level: Intermediate
+
Get rid of dev->struct_mutex from GEM drivers
---------------------------------------------
@@ -114,6 +140,8 @@ fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only t
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
+Level: Advanced
+
Convert instances of dev_info/dev_err/dev_warn to their DRM_DEV_* equivalent
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -129,6 +157,8 @@ are better.
Contact: Sean Paul, Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
+Level: Starter
+
Convert drivers to use simple modeset suspend/resume
----------------------------------------------------
@@ -139,6 +169,8 @@ of the atomic suspend/resume code in older atomic modeset drivers.
Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
+Level: Intermediate
+
Convert drivers to use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_setup/teardown()
-----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -157,6 +189,8 @@ probably use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_teardown().
Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
+Level: Intermediate
+
Clean up mmap forwarding
------------------------
@@ -166,6 +200,8 @@ There's drm_gem_prime_mmap() for this now, but still needs to be rolled out.
Contact: Daniel Vetter
+Level: Intermediate
+
Generic fbdev defio support
---------------------------
@@ -196,6 +232,8 @@ Might be good to also have some igt testcases for this.
Contact: Daniel Vetter, Noralf Tronnes
+Level: Advanced
+
idr_init_base()
---------------
@@ -206,6 +244,8 @@ efficient.
Contact: Daniel Vetter
+Level: Starter
+
struct drm_gem_object_funcs
---------------------------
@@ -216,6 +256,8 @@ We also need a 2nd version of the CMA define that doesn't require the
vmapping to be present (different hook for prime importing). Plus this needs to
be rolled out to all drivers using their own implementations, too.
+Level: Intermediate
+
Use DRM_MODESET_LOCK_ALL_* helpers instead of boilerplate
---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -231,6 +273,8 @@ As a reference, take a look at the conversions already completed in drm core.
Contact: Sean Paul, respective driver maintainers
+Level: Starter
+
Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers
---------------------------------
@@ -241,6 +285,9 @@ no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent.
Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter
+Level: Intermediate (mostly because it is a huge tasks without good partial
+milestones, not technically itself that challenging)
+
Convert direct mode.vrefresh accesses to use drm_mode_vrefresh()
----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -259,6 +306,8 @@ drm_display_mode to avoid future use.
Contact: Sean Paul
+Level: Starter
+
Remove drm_display_mode.hsync
-----------------------------
@@ -269,6 +318,8 @@ it to use drm_mode_hsync() instead.
Contact: Sean Paul
+Level: Starter
+
drm_fb_helper tasks
-------------------
@@ -284,6 +335,8 @@ drm_fb_helper tasks
removed: drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors(),
drm_fb_helper_add_one_connector() and drm_fb_helper_remove_one_connector().
+Level: Intermediate
+
connector register/unregister fixes
-----------------------------------
@@ -296,21 +349,11 @@ connector register/unregister fixes
drm_dp_aux_init, and moving the actual registering into a late_register
callback as recommended in the kerneldoc.
+Level: Intermediate
+
Core refactorings
=================
-Clean up the DRM header mess
-----------------------------
-
-The DRM subsystem originally had only one huge global header, ``drmP.h``. This
-is now split up, but many source files still include it. The remaining part of
-the cleanup work here is to replace any ``#include <drm/drmP.h>`` by only the
-headers needed (and fixing up any missing pre-declarations in the headers).
-
-In the end no .c file should need to include ``drmP.h`` anymore.
-
-Contact: Daniel Vetter
-
Make panic handling work
------------------------
@@ -350,6 +393,8 @@ This is a really varied tasks with lots of little bits and pieces:
Contact: Daniel Vetter
+Level: Advanced
+
Clean up the debugfs support
----------------------------
@@ -379,6 +424,8 @@ There's a bunch of issues with it:
Contact: Daniel Vetter
+Level: Intermediate
+
KMS cleanups
------------
@@ -394,6 +441,8 @@ Some of these date from the very introduction of KMS in 2008 ...
end, for which we could add drm_*_cleanup_kfree(). And then there's the (for
historical reasons) misnamed drm_primary_helper_destroy() function.
+Level: Intermediate
+
Better Testing
==============
@@ -402,6 +451,8 @@ Enable trinity for DRM
And fix up the fallout. Should be really interesting ...
+Level: Advanced
+
Make KMS tests in i-g-t generic
-------------------------------
@@ -415,6 +466,8 @@ converting things over. For modeset tests we also first need a bit of
infrastructure to use dumb buffers for untiled buffers, to be able to run all
the non-i915 specific modeset tests.
+Level: Advanced
+
Extend virtual test driver (VKMS)
---------------------------------
@@ -424,6 +477,8 @@ fit the available time.
Contact: Daniel Vetter
+Level: See details
+
Backlight Refactoring
---------------------
@@ -437,6 +492,8 @@ Plan to fix this:
Contact: Daniel Vetter
+Level: Intermediate
+
Driver Specific
===============
@@ -450,13 +507,6 @@ See drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/TODO for tasks.
Contact: Harry Wentland, Alex Deucher
-i915
-----
-
-- Our early/late pm callbacks could be removed in favour of using
- device_link_add to model the dependency between i915 and snd_had. See
- https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/driver-api/device_link.html
-
Bootsplash
==========
@@ -472,5 +522,36 @@ for fbdev.
Contact: Sam Ravnborg
+Level: Advanced
+
Outside DRM
===========
+
+Convert fbdev drivers to DRM
+----------------------------
+
+There are plenty of fbdev drivers for older hardware. Some hwardware has
+become obsolete, but some still provides good(-enough) framebuffers. The
+drivers that are still useful should be converted to DRM and afterwards
+removed from fbdev.
+
+Very simple fbdev drivers can best be converted by starting with a new
+DRM driver. Simple KMS helpers and SHMEM should be able to handle any
+existing hardware. The new driver's call-back functions are filled from
+existing fbdev code.
+
+More complex fbdev drivers can be refactored step-by-step into a DRM
+driver with the help of the DRM fbconv helpers. [1] These helpers provide
+the transition layer between the DRM core infrastructure and the fbdev
+driver interface. Create a new DRM driver on top of the fbconv helpers,
+copy over the fbdev driver, and hook it up to the DRM code. Examples for
+several fbdev drivers are available at [1] and a tutorial of this process
+available at [2]. The result is a primitive DRM driver that can run X11
+and Weston.
+
+ - [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/tree/fbconv
+ - [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/blob/fbconv/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbconv_helper.c
+
+Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
+
+Level: Advanced