On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:52:34AM +0000, Kandpal, Suraj wrote:
Hi Daniel,
A patch series was floated in the drm mailing list which aimed to change the drm_connector and drm_encoder fields to pointer in the drm_connector_writeback structure, this received a huge pushback from the community but since i915 expects each connector present in the drm_device list to be a intel_connector but drm_writeback framework. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20220202081702.22 119-1-suraj.kandpal@intel.com/ [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20220202085429.22 261-6-suraj.kandpal@intel.com/ This forces us to use a drm_connector which is not embedded in intel_connector the current drm_writeback framework becomes very unfeasible to us as it would mean a lot of checks at a lot of places to take into account the above issue.Since no one had an issue with encoder field being changed into a pointer it was decided to break the connector and encoder pointer changes into two different series.The encoder field changes is currently being worked upon by Abhinav Kumar [3]https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/list/?series=633565 In the meantime for i915 to start using the writeback functionality we came up with a interim solution to own writeback pipeline bypassing one provided by drm which is what these patches do. Note: these are temp patches till we figure out how we can either change drm core writeback to work with our intel_connector structure or find a different solution which allows us to work with the current
I'm assuming this is just fyi to keep development moving and not being planned for merging?
Yes we do plan to get it merged as a proper implementation that uses drm-core will require significant time and to unblock the writeback functionality these interim series of patches have been floated.
No, I really don't think merging some interim hack is the way to go.
It's not display, but on the gem side there was this huge exception about "hey we need to merge guc scheduler and it's totally ready but it's not done properly like it should have been for upstream". And surprise it wasn't ready and took a year just to get the hack job complete, and now no one seems to be working on doing things properly. So I'm not eager at all to ack more hack jobs for i915.
Do it right before merging to upstream please. -Daniel