linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] drm/sun4i: Add support for the overscan profiles

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:56:30 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] drm/sun4i: Add support for the overscan profiles

Hi Daniel,

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:59:27AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:29:38AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Create overscan profiles reducing the displayed zone.
> > 
> > For each TV standard (PAL and NTSC so far), we create 4 more reduced modes
> > by steps of 5% that the user will be able to select.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> 
> tbh I think if we agree to do this (and that still seems an open question)
> I think there should be a generic helper to add these overscan modes with
> increased porches. Anything that only depends upon the sink (and
> overscanning is something the sink does) should imo be put into a suitable
> helper library for everyone to share.
> 
> Or maybe even stash it into the probe helpers and call it for all TV
> connectors. Definitely not a driver-private thing.

Last time we discussed it, my recollection was that you didn't want to
have generic code for it, but I'd be happy to implement it.

I'll come up with something like that.

Thanks!
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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