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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 6792fa9b6b6b..bc869b23fc39 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -142,14 +142,14 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Advanced -Convert instances of dev_info/dev_err/dev_warn to their DRM_DEV_* equivalent ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater +------------------------------------------------------------ For drivers which could have multiple instances, it is necessary to differentiate between which is which in the logs. Since DRM_INFO/WARN/ERROR don't do this, drivers used dev_info/warn/err to make this differentiation. We -now have DRM_DEV_* variants of the drm print macros, so we can start to convert -those drivers back to using drm-formwatted specific log messages. +now have drm_* variants of the drm print functions, so we can start to convert +those drivers back to using drm-formatted specific log messages. Before you start this conversion please contact the relevant maintainers to make sure your work will be merged - not everyone agrees that the DRM dmesg macros @@ -171,23 +171,40 @@ Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert Level: Intermediate -Convert drivers to use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_setup/teardown() ------------------------------------------------------------ +Convert drivers to use drm_fbdev_generic_setup() +------------------------------------------------ -Most drivers can use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_setup() except maybe: +Most drivers can use drm_fbdev_generic_setup(). Driver have to implement +atomic modesetting and GEM vmap support. Current generic fbdev emulation +expects the framebuffer in system memory (or system-like memory). -- amdgpu which has special logic to decide whether to call - drm_helper_disable_unused_functions() +Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert + +Level: Intermediate -- armada which isn't atomic and doesn't call - drm_helper_disable_unused_functions() +drm_framebuffer_funcs and drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create cleanup +----------------------------------------------------------------- -- i915 which calls drm_fb_helper_initial_config() in a worker +A lot more drivers could be switched over to the drm_gem_framebuffer helpers. +Various hold-ups: -Drivers that use drm_framebuffer_remove() to clean up the fbdev framebuffer can -probably use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_teardown(). +- Need to switch over to the generic dirty tracking code using + drm_atomic_helper_dirtyfb first (e.g. qxl). -Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert +- Need to switch to drm_fbdev_generic_setup(), otherwise a lot of the custom fb + setup code can't be deleted. + +- Many drivers wrap drm_gem_fb_create() only to check for valid formats. For + atomic drivers we could check for valid formats by calling + drm_plane_check_pixel_format() against all planes, and pass if any plane + supports the format. For non-atomic that's not possible since like the format + list for the primary plane is fake and we'd therefor reject valid formats. + +- Many drivers subclass drm_framebuffer, we'd need a embedding compatible + version of the varios drm_gem_fb_create functions. Maybe called + drm_gem_fb_create/_with_dirty/_with_funcs as needed. + +Contact: Daniel Vetter Level: Intermediate @@ -328,8 +345,8 @@ drm_fb_helper tasks these igt tests need to be fixed: kms_fbcon_fbt@psr and kms_fbcon_fbt@psr-suspend. -- The max connector argument for drm_fb_helper_init() and - drm_fb_helper_fbdev_setup() isn't used anymore and can be removed. +- The max connector argument for drm_fb_helper_init() isn't used anymore and + can be removed. - The helper doesn't keep an array of connectors anymore so these can be removed: drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors(), @@ -351,6 +368,23 @@ connector register/unregister fixes Level: Intermediate +Remove load/unload callbacks from all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers +--------------------------------------------------------------- + +The load/unload callbacks in struct &drm_driver are very much midlayers, plus +for historical reasons they get the ordering wrong (and we can't fix that) +between setting up the &drm_driver structure and calling drm_dev_register(). + +- Rework drivers to no longer use the load/unload callbacks, directly coding the + load/unload sequence into the driver's probe function. + +- Once all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers are converted, disallow the load/unload + callbacks for all modern drivers. + +Contact: Daniel Vetter + +Level: Intermediate + Core refactorings ================= |