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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst | 43 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst | 60 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst index c3ce91eecbc1..2d473bc64c9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst @@ -226,40 +226,43 @@ Panel Self Refresh Helper Reference HDCP Helper Functions Reference =============================== -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_hdcp.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_hdcp_helper.c :export: Display Port Helper Functions Reference ======================================= -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.c :doc: dp helpers -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/dp/drm_dp_helper.h +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/display/drm_dp.h :internal: -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp.c +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.c :export: Display Port CEC Helper Functions Reference =========================================== -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_cec.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_cec.c :doc: dp cec helpers -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_cec.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_cec.c :export: Display Port Dual Mode Adaptor Helper Functions Reference ========================================================= -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c :doc: dp dual mode helpers -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/dp/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.h +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/display/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.h :internal: -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c :export: Display Port MST Helpers @@ -268,19 +271,19 @@ Display Port MST Helpers Overview -------- -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_mst_topology.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c :doc: dp mst helper -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_mst_topology.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c :doc: Branch device and port refcounting Functions Reference ------------------- -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/dp/drm_dp_mst_helper.h +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_helper.h :internal: -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_mst_topology.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c :export: Topology Lifetime Internals @@ -289,7 +292,7 @@ Topology Lifetime Internals These functions aren't exported to drivers, but are documented here to help make the MST topology helpers easier to understand -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/dp/drm_dp_mst_topology.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c :functions: drm_dp_mst_topology_try_get_mstb drm_dp_mst_topology_get_mstb drm_dp_mst_topology_put_mstb drm_dp_mst_topology_try_get_port drm_dp_mst_topology_get_port @@ -323,13 +326,13 @@ MIPI DSI Helper Functions Reference Display Stream Compression Helper Functions Reference ===================================================== -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dsc.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dsc_helper.c :doc: dsc helpers -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_dsc.h +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/display/drm_dsc.h :internal: -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dsc.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dsc_helper.c :export: Output Probing Helper Functions Reference @@ -353,13 +356,13 @@ EDID Helper Functions Reference SCDC Helper Functions Reference =============================== -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_scdc_helper.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_scdc_helper.c :doc: scdc helpers -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_scdc_helper.h +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/display/drm_scdc_helper.h :internal: -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_scdc_helper.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_scdc_helper.c :export: HDMI Infoframes Helper Reference diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst index 25a56e9c0cfd..f05eccd2c07c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst @@ -112,3 +112,63 @@ Please conduct yourself in a respectful and civilised manner when interacting with community members on mailing lists, IRC, or bug trackers. The community represents the project as a whole, and abusive or bullying behaviour is not tolerated by the project. + +Simple DRM drivers to use as examples +===================================== + +The DRM subsystem contains a lot of helper functions to ease writing drivers for +simple graphic devices. For example, the `drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/` directory has a +set of drivers that are simple enough to be implemented in a single source file. + +These drivers make use of the `struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs`, that hides +any complexity of the DRM subsystem and just requires drivers to implement a few +functions needed to operate the device. This could be used for devices that just +need a display pipeline with one full-screen scanout buffer feeding one output. + +The tiny DRM drivers are good examples to understand how DRM drivers should look +like. Since are just a few hundreds lines of code, they are quite easy to read. + +External References +=================== + +Delving into a Linux kernel subsystem for the first time can be an overwhelming +experience, one needs to get familiar with all the concepts and learn about the +subsystem's internals, among other details. + +To shallow the learning curve, this section contains a list of presentations +and documents that can be used to learn about DRM/KMS and graphics in general. + +There are different reasons why someone might want to get into DRM: porting an +existing fbdev driver, write a DRM driver for a new hardware, fixing bugs that +could face when working on the graphics user-space stack, etc. For this reason, +the learning material covers many aspects of the Linux graphics stack. From an +overview of the kernel and user-space stacks to very specific topics. + +The list is sorted in reverse chronological order, to keep the most up-to-date +material at the top. But all of them contain useful information, and it can be +valuable to go through older material to understand the rationale and context +in which the changes to the DRM subsystem were made. + +Conference talks +---------------- + +* `An Overview of the Linux and Userspace Graphics Stack <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjAJmqwg47k>`_ - Paul Kocialkowski (2020) +* `Getting pixels on screen on Linux: introduction to Kernel Mode Setting <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haes4_Xnc5Q>`_ - Simon Ser (2020) +* `Everything Great about Upstream Graphics <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVzHOgt6WGE>`_ - Daniel Vetter (2019) +* `An introduction to the Linux DRM subsystem <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDOCJcDRoo>`_ - Maxime Ripard (2017) +* `Embrace the Atomic (Display) Age <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjiB_JeDn2M>`_ - Daniel Vetter (2016) +* `Anatomy of an Atomic KMS Driver <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lihqR9sENpc>`_ - Laurent Pinchart (2015) +* `Atomic Modesetting for Drivers <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl9suFgbTc8>`_ - Daniel Vetter (2015) +* `Anatomy of an Embedded KMS Driver <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8fM7rTae4>`_ - Laurent Pinchart (2013) + +Slides and articles +------------------- + +* `Understanding the Linux Graphics Stack <https://bootlin.com/doc/training/graphics/graphics-slides.pdf>`_ - Bootlin (2022) +* `DRM KMS overview <https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/DRM_KMS_overview>`_ - STMicroelectronics (2021) +* `Linux graphic stack <https://studiopixl.com/2017-05-13/linux-graphic-stack-an-overview>`_ - Nathan Gauër (2017) +* `Atomic mode setting design overview, part 1 <https://lwn.net/Articles/653071/>`_ - Daniel Vetter (2015) +* `Atomic mode setting design overview, part 2 <https://lwn.net/Articles/653466/>`_ - Daniel Vetter (2015) +* `The DRM/KMS subsystem from a newbie’s point of view <https://bootlin.com/pub/conferences/2014/elce/brezillon-drm-kms/brezillon-drm-kms.pdf>`_ - Boris Brezillon (2014) +* `A brief introduction to the Linux graphics stack <https://blogs.igalia.com/itoral/2014/07/29/a-brief-introduction-to-the-linux-graphics-stack/>`_ - Iago Toral (2014) +* `The Linux Graphics Stack <https://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-stack/>`_ - Jasper St. Pierre (2012) |