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Message-ID: <Z50AD91RnzK2lWSd@fedora>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:53:35 +0100
From: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@...il.com>
To: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 3/7] drm/vkms: Drop YUV formats TODO

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:02:14PM +0100, Louis Chauvet wrote:
> On 31/01/25 - 09:40, José Expósito wrote:
> > Hi Louis,
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for the patches.
> > 
> > I'm not well versed in YUV color formats, so I did my best reading the kernel
> > documentation before reviewing this series... But I'll most likely ask some
> > basic/dump questions.
> > 
> > > From: Arthur Grillo <arthurgrillo@...eup.net>
> > > 
> > > VKMS has support for YUV formats now. Remove the task from the TODO
> > > list.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Arthur Grillo <arthurgrillo@...eup.net>
> > > Signed-off-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst | 3 +--
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst
> > > index ba04ac7c2167a9d484c54c69a09a2fb8f2d9c0aa..13b866c3617cd44043406252d3caa912c931772f 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst
> > > @@ -122,8 +122,7 @@ There's lots of plane features we could add support for:
> > >  
> > >  - Scaling.
> > >  
> > > -- Additional buffer formats, especially YUV formats for video like NV12.
> > > -  Low/high bpp RGB formats would also be interesting.
> > > +- Additional buffer formats. Low/high bpp RGB formats would be interesting.
> > 
> > I see that you implemented support for 6 DRM_FORMAT_NV* formats, but
> > DRM_FORMAT_NV15, DRM_FORMAT_NV20 and DRM_FORMAT_NV30 are not implemented.
> > 
> > The same applies to DRM_FORMAT_Y210 or DRM_FORMAT_YUV410 among others.
> > 
> > Could it be useful to implement all of them in the future? If so, should we add
> > it to the ToDo list?
> 
> I don't think we need "all of them" (there are ≈100 + all the modifiers), 
> but definitly all the commonly used ones (I have some of the "common" one 
> ready here [1], I just wait for the YUV series to be accepted to avoid 
> conflicts).

Good to know, thanks for the clarification. I think we are good with this
to-do item as it is. There's plenty of work that can be done :)

Jose

> > It might be a great task to get started in kernel development, as there are
> > already similar examples and tests.
> 
> I don't think we need to specify which format are missing, the point 
> "Additionnal buffer formats. [...]" seems sufficient. If you think this is 
> relevant, I can add "Easy task" so beginners will find it easier?
>  
> [1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241122-b4-new-color-formats-v3-0-23f7776197c9@bootlin.com/
> 
> > >  
> > >  - Async updates (currently only possible on cursor plane using the legacy
> > >    cursor api).
> > >