linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: DON'T require each CRTC to have a unique primary plane

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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:15:28 +0100
From:   Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
To:     Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>
Cc:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Simon Ser <contact@...rsion.fr>, od@...c.me,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: DON'T require each CRTC to have a unique primary
 plane

Hi Maxime,

Le lun. 29 mars 2021 à 16:07, Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech> a 
écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 11:22:14AM +0000, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>>  The ingenic-drm driver has two mutually exclusive primary planes
>>  already; so the fact that a CRTC must have one and only one primary
>>  plane is an invalid assumption.
> 
> I mean, no? It's been documented for a while that a CRTC should only
> have a single primary, so I'd say that the invalid assumption was that
> it was possible to have multiple primary planes for a CRTC.

Documented where?

I did read the doc of "enum drm_plane_type" in <drm/drm_plane.h>, and 
the DRM_PLANE_TYPE_PRIMARY describes my two planes, so I went with that.

-Paul

> Since it looks like you have two mutually exclusive planes, just 
> expose
> one and be done with it?
> 
> Maxime