Below two discussion threads will provide the context behind this patch.
https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg229070.html https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/db26145b-3f64-a334-f698-76f972332881@b...
Seperating out the core framework patch from vendor implementation.
Jeykumar Sankaran (1): drm: add fb max width/height fields to drm_mode_config
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- include/drm/drm_mode_config.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
The mode_config max width/height values determine the maximum resolution the pixel reader can handle. But the same values are used to restrict the size of the framebuffer creation. Hardware's with scaling blocks can operate on framebuffers larger/smaller than that of the pixel reader resolutions by scaling them down/up before rendering.
This changes adds a separate framebuffer max width/height fields in drm_mode_config to allow vendors to set if they are different than that of the default max resolution values.
Vendors setting these fields should fix their mode_set paths too by filtering and validating the modes against the appropriate max fields in their mode_valid() implementations.
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong narmstrong@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Jeykumar Sankaran jsanka@codeaurora.org --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c | 15 +++++++++++---- include/drm/drm_mode_config.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c index 5756431..2083168 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c @@ -300,14 +300,21 @@ struct drm_framebuffer * return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }
- if ((config->min_width > r->width) || (r->width > config->max_width)) { + if ((config->min_width > r->width) || + (!config->max_fb_width && r->width > config->max_width) || + (config->max_fb_width && r->width > config->max_fb_width)) { DRM_DEBUG_KMS("bad framebuffer width %d, should be >= %d && <= %d\n", - r->width, config->min_width, config->max_width); + r->width, config->min_width, config->max_fb_width ? + config->max_fb_width : config->max_width); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } - if ((config->min_height > r->height) || (r->height > config->max_height)) { + + if ((config->min_height > r->height) || + (!config->max_fb_height && r->height > config->max_height) || + (config->max_fb_height && r->height > config->max_fb_height)) { DRM_DEBUG_KMS("bad framebuffer height %d, should be >= %d && <= %d\n", - r->height, config->min_height, config->max_height); + r->height, config->min_height, config->max_fb_width ? + config->max_fb_height : config->max_height); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h index 3bcbe30..c6394ed 100644 --- a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h +++ b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h @@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs { * @min_height: minimum fb pixel height on this device * @max_width: maximum fb pixel width on this device * @max_height: maximum fb pixel height on this device + * @max_fb_width: maximum fb buffer width if differs from max_width + * @max_fb_height: maximum fb buffer height if differs from max_height * @funcs: core driver provided mode setting functions * @fb_base: base address of the framebuffer * @poll_enabled: track polling support for this device @@ -523,6 +525,7 @@ struct drm_mode_config {
int min_width, min_height; int max_width, max_height; + int max_fb_width, max_fb_height; const struct drm_mode_config_funcs *funcs; resource_size_t fb_base;
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:28:51PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
The mode_config max width/height values determine the maximum resolution the pixel reader can handle.
Not according to the docs I "fixed" a while ago.
But the same values are used to restrict the size of the framebuffer creation. Hardware's with scaling blocks can operate on framebuffers larger/smaller than that of the pixel reader resolutions by scaling them down/up before rendering.
This changes adds a separate framebuffer max width/height fields in drm_mode_config to allow vendors to set if they are different than that of the default max resolution values.
If you're going to change the meaning of the old values you need to fix the drivers too.
Personally I don't see too much point in this since you most likely want to validate all the other timings as well, and so likely need some kind of mode_valid implementation anyway. Hence to validate modes there's not much benefit of having global min/max values.
Vendors setting these fields should fix their mode_set paths too by filtering and validating the modes against the appropriate max fields in their mode_valid() implementations.
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong narmstrong@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Jeykumar Sankaran jsanka@codeaurora.org
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c | 15 +++++++++++---- include/drm/drm_mode_config.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c index 5756431..2083168 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c @@ -300,14 +300,21 @@ struct drm_framebuffer * return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }
- if ((config->min_width > r->width) || (r->width > config->max_width)) {
- if ((config->min_width > r->width) ||
(!config->max_fb_width && r->width > config->max_width) ||
DRM_DEBUG_KMS("bad framebuffer width %d, should be >= %d && <= %d\n",(config->max_fb_width && r->width > config->max_fb_width)) {
r->width, config->min_width, config->max_width);
r->width, config->min_width, config->max_fb_width ?
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }config->max_fb_width : config->max_width);
- if ((config->min_height > r->height) || (r->height > config->max_height)) {
- if ((config->min_height > r->height) ||
(!config->max_fb_height && r->height > config->max_height) ||
DRM_DEBUG_KMS("bad framebuffer height %d, should be >= %d && <= %d\n",(config->max_fb_height && r->height > config->max_fb_height)) {
r->height, config->min_height, config->max_height);
r->height, config->min_height, config->max_fb_width ?
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }config->max_fb_height : config->max_height);
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h index 3bcbe30..c6394ed 100644 --- a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h +++ b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h @@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
- @min_height: minimum fb pixel height on this device
- @max_width: maximum fb pixel width on this device
- @max_height: maximum fb pixel height on this device
- @max_fb_width: maximum fb buffer width if differs from max_width
- @max_fb_height: maximum fb buffer height if differs from max_height
- @funcs: core driver provided mode setting functions
- @fb_base: base address of the framebuffer
- @poll_enabled: track polling support for this device
@@ -523,6 +525,7 @@ struct drm_mode_config {
int min_width, min_height; int max_width, max_height;
- int max_fb_width, max_fb_height; const struct drm_mode_config_funcs *funcs; resource_size_t fb_base;
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On 2019-09-30 03:39, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:28:51PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
The mode_config max width/height values determine the maximum resolution the pixel reader can handle.
Not according to the docs I "fixed" a while ago.
But the same values are used to restrict the size of the framebuffer creation. Hardware's with scaling blocks can operate on framebuffers larger/smaller than that of the pixel reader resolutions by scaling them down/up before rendering.
This changes adds a separate framebuffer max width/height fields in drm_mode_config to allow vendors to set if they are different than that of the default max resolution values.
If you're going to change the meaning of the old values you need to fix the drivers too.
Personally I don't see too much point in this since you most likely want to validate all the other timings as well, and so likely need some kind of mode_valid implementation anyway. Hence to validate modes there's not much benefit of having global min/max values.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10467155/
I believe you are referring to this patch.
I am primarily interested in the scaling scenario mentioned here. MSM and a few other hardware have scaling block that are used both ways:
1) Where FB limits are larger than the display limits. Scalar blocks are used to downscale the framebuffers and render within display limits.
In this scenario, with your patch, are you suggesting the drivers maintain the display limits locally and use those values in fill_modes() / mode_valid() to filter out invalid modes explicitly instead of mode_config.max_width/height?
2) Where FB limits are smaller than display limits. Enforced for performance reasons on low tier hardware. It reduces the fetch bandwidth and uses post blending scalar block to scale up the pixel stream to match the display resolution.
Any suggestions on how this topology can be handled with a single set of max/min values?
Thanks and Regards, Jeykumar S.
Vendors setting these fields should fix their mode_set paths too by filtering and validating the modes against the appropriate max fields in their mode_valid() implementations.
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong narmstrong@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Jeykumar Sankaran jsanka@codeaurora.org
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c | 15 +++++++++++---- include/drm/drm_mode_config.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c
index 5756431..2083168 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c @@ -300,14 +300,21 @@ struct drm_framebuffer * return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }
- if ((config->min_width > r->width) || (r->width >
config->max_width)) {
- if ((config->min_width > r->width) ||
(!config->max_fb_width && r->width > config->max_width) ||
DRM_DEBUG_KMS("bad framebuffer width %d, should be >= %d(config->max_fb_width && r->width > config->max_fb_width)) {
&& <= %d\n",
r->width, config->min_width, config->max_width);
r->width, config->min_width, config->max_fb_width
?
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }config->max_fb_width : config->max_width);
- if ((config->min_height > r->height) || (r->height >
config->max_height)) {
- if ((config->min_height > r->height) ||
(!config->max_fb_height && r->height > config->max_height) ||
(config->max_fb_height && r->height > config->max_fb_height))
{
DRM_DEBUG_KMS("bad framebuffer height %d, should be >= %d
&& <= %d\n",
r->height, config->min_height,
config->max_height);
r->height, config->min_height,
config->max_fb_width ?
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }config->max_fb_height : config->max_height);
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
index 3bcbe30..c6394ed 100644 --- a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h +++ b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h @@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
- @min_height: minimum fb pixel height on this device
- @max_width: maximum fb pixel width on this device
- @max_height: maximum fb pixel height on this device
- @max_fb_width: maximum fb buffer width if differs from max_width
- @max_fb_height: maximum fb buffer height if differs from
max_height
- @funcs: core driver provided mode setting functions
- @fb_base: base address of the framebuffer
- @poll_enabled: track polling support for this device
@@ -523,6 +525,7 @@ struct drm_mode_config {
int min_width, min_height; int max_width, max_height;
- int max_fb_width, max_fb_height; const struct drm_mode_config_funcs *funcs; resource_size_t fb_base;
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 02:20:55PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
On 2019-09-30 03:39, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:28:51PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
The mode_config max width/height values determine the maximum resolution the pixel reader can handle.
Not according to the docs I "fixed" a while ago.
But the same values are used to restrict the size of the framebuffer creation. Hardware's with scaling blocks can operate on framebuffers larger/smaller than that of the pixel reader resolutions by scaling them down/up before rendering.
This changes adds a separate framebuffer max width/height fields in drm_mode_config to allow vendors to set if they are different than that of the default max resolution values.
If you're going to change the meaning of the old values you need to fix the drivers too.
Personally I don't see too much point in this since you most likely want to validate all the other timings as well, and so likely need some kind of mode_valid implementation anyway. Hence to validate modes there's not much benefit of having global min/max values.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10467155/
I believe you are referring to this patch.
I am primarily interested in the scaling scenario mentioned here. MSM and a few other hardware have scaling block that are used both ways:
- Where FB limits are larger than the display limits. Scalar blocks are
used to downscale the framebuffers and render within display limits.
In this scenario, with your patch, are you suggesting the drivers maintain the display limits locally and use those values in fill_modes() / mode_valid() to filter out invalid modes explicitly instead of mode_config.max_width/height?
- Where FB limits are smaller than display limits. Enforced for
performance reasons on low tier hardware. It reduces the fetch bandwidth and uses post blending scalar block to scale up the pixel stream to match the display resolution.
As Daniel mentioned in that discussion your typical userspace assumes that it can use a single unscaled framebuffer with any advertised mode. Hence I believe limiting the mode list based on the max framebuffer size is pretty much required unless you want to break existing userspace.
In i915 I went a bit further than that recently and now we filter the mode list based on the maximum plane size [1] (which can be less than the max fb size and less than the maximum crtc dimensions). And again that's because userspace assumes that it can just use a single unscaled fullscreen plane to cover the entire crtc.
These assumption are also carved into the legacy setcrtc uapi where you can't even specify multiple framebuffers. In theory a driver could internally use multiple planes to overcome some of the limitations, but in i915 at least we don't.
[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel/commit/?id=2d20411e25a3bf3d2914a2...
Any suggestions on how this topology can be handled with a single set of max/min values?
I think a safe way to relax these rules would be to either: a) Add a client cap by which userspace can inform the kernel it understands there are more complicated limits at play and thus can't assume that everything will just work b) Maybe we could just tie that in with the atomic cap since atomic clients are pretty much required to do the TEST_ONLY dance anyway, so one might hope they have a working fallback strategy. Though I suspect eg. the modesetting ddx wouldn't like this. But we no longer allow atomic with X anyway so that partcular argument may not hold much weight anymore.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:45 AM Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 02:20:55PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
On 2019-09-30 03:39, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:28:51PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
The mode_config max width/height values determine the maximum resolution the pixel reader can handle.
Not according to the docs I "fixed" a while ago.
But the same values are used to restrict the size of the framebuffer creation. Hardware's with scaling blocks can operate on framebuffers larger/smaller than that of the pixel reader resolutions by scaling them down/up before rendering.
This changes adds a separate framebuffer max width/height fields in drm_mode_config to allow vendors to set if they are different than that of the default max resolution values.
If you're going to change the meaning of the old values you need to fix the drivers too.
Personally I don't see too much point in this since you most likely want to validate all the other timings as well, and so likely need some kind of mode_valid implementation anyway. Hence to validate modes there's not much benefit of having global min/max values.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10467155/
I believe you are referring to this patch.
I am primarily interested in the scaling scenario mentioned here. MSM and a few other hardware have scaling block that are used both ways:
- Where FB limits are larger than the display limits. Scalar blocks are
used to downscale the framebuffers and render within display limits.
In this scenario, with your patch, are you suggesting the drivers maintain the display limits locally and use those values in fill_modes() / mode_valid() to filter out invalid modes explicitly instead of mode_config.max_width/height?
- Where FB limits are smaller than display limits. Enforced for
performance reasons on low tier hardware. It reduces the fetch bandwidth and uses post blending scalar block to scale up the pixel stream to match the display resolution.
As Daniel mentioned in that discussion your typical userspace assumes that it can use a single unscaled framebuffer with any advertised mode. Hence I believe limiting the mode list based on the max framebuffer size is pretty much required unless you want to break existing userspace.
In i915 I went a bit further than that recently and now we filter the mode list based on the maximum plane size [1] (which can be less than the max fb size and less than the maximum crtc dimensions). And again that's because userspace assumes that it can just use a single unscaled fullscreen plane to cover the entire crtc.
These assumption are also carved into the legacy setcrtc uapi where you can't even specify multiple framebuffers. In theory a driver could internally use multiple planes to overcome some of the limitations, but in i915 at least we don't.
[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel/commit/?id=2d20411e25a3bf3d2914a2...
Any suggestions on how this topology can be handled with a single set of max/min values?
I think a safe way to relax these rules would be to either: a) Add a client cap by which userspace can inform the kernel it understands there are more complicated limits at play and thus can't assume that everything will just work b) Maybe we could just tie that in with the atomic cap since atomic clients are pretty much required to do the TEST_ONLY dance anyway, so one might hope they have a working fallback strategy. Though I suspect eg. the modesetting ddx wouldn't like this. But we no longer allow atomic with X anyway so that partcular argument may not hold much weight anymore.
What was the conclusion of the hack to not expose atomic to modesetting ddx, due to the brokenness of it's atomic use? I guess that could also make the modesetting case go away..
BR, -R
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:55:10PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:45 AM Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 02:20:55PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
On 2019-09-30 03:39, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:28:51PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
The mode_config max width/height values determine the maximum resolution the pixel reader can handle.
Not according to the docs I "fixed" a while ago.
But the same values are used to restrict the size of the framebuffer creation. Hardware's with scaling blocks can operate on framebuffers larger/smaller than that of the pixel reader resolutions by scaling them down/up before rendering.
This changes adds a separate framebuffer max width/height fields in drm_mode_config to allow vendors to set if they are different than that of the default max resolution values.
If you're going to change the meaning of the old values you need to fix the drivers too.
Personally I don't see too much point in this since you most likely want to validate all the other timings as well, and so likely need some kind of mode_valid implementation anyway. Hence to validate modes there's not much benefit of having global min/max values.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10467155/
I believe you are referring to this patch.
I am primarily interested in the scaling scenario mentioned here. MSM and a few other hardware have scaling block that are used both ways:
- Where FB limits are larger than the display limits. Scalar blocks are
used to downscale the framebuffers and render within display limits.
In this scenario, with your patch, are you suggesting the drivers maintain the display limits locally and use those values in fill_modes() / mode_valid() to filter out invalid modes explicitly instead of mode_config.max_width/height?
- Where FB limits are smaller than display limits. Enforced for
performance reasons on low tier hardware. It reduces the fetch bandwidth and uses post blending scalar block to scale up the pixel stream to match the display resolution.
As Daniel mentioned in that discussion your typical userspace assumes that it can use a single unscaled framebuffer with any advertised mode. Hence I believe limiting the mode list based on the max framebuffer size is pretty much required unless you want to break existing userspace.
In i915 I went a bit further than that recently and now we filter the mode list based on the maximum plane size [1] (which can be less than the max fb size and less than the maximum crtc dimensions). And again that's because userspace assumes that it can just use a single unscaled fullscreen plane to cover the entire crtc.
These assumption are also carved into the legacy setcrtc uapi where you can't even specify multiple framebuffers. In theory a driver could internally use multiple planes to overcome some of the limitations, but in i915 at least we don't.
[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel/commit/?id=2d20411e25a3bf3d2914a2...
Any suggestions on how this topology can be handled with a single set of max/min values?
I think a safe way to relax these rules would be to either: a) Add a client cap by which userspace can inform the kernel it understands there are more complicated limits at play and thus can't assume that everything will just work b) Maybe we could just tie that in with the atomic cap since atomic clients are pretty much required to do the TEST_ONLY dance anyway, so one might hope they have a working fallback strategy. Though I suspect eg. the modesetting ddx wouldn't like this. But we no longer allow atomic with X anyway so that partcular argument may not hold much weight anymore.
What was the conclusion of the hack to not expose atomic to modesetting ddx, due to the brokenness of it's atomic use? I guess that could also make the modesetting case go away..
I thought it went in? Maybe I'm mistaken.
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 01:27:18PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:55:10PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:45 AM Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 02:20:55PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
On 2019-09-30 03:39, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:28:51PM -0700, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
The mode_config max width/height values determine the maximum resolution the pixel reader can handle.
Not according to the docs I "fixed" a while ago.
But the same values are used to restrict the size of the framebuffer creation. Hardware's with scaling blocks can operate on framebuffers larger/smaller than that of the pixel reader resolutions by scaling them down/up before rendering.
This changes adds a separate framebuffer max width/height fields in drm_mode_config to allow vendors to set if they are different than that of the default max resolution values.
If you're going to change the meaning of the old values you need to fix the drivers too.
Personally I don't see too much point in this since you most likely want to validate all the other timings as well, and so likely need some kind of mode_valid implementation anyway. Hence to validate modes there's not much benefit of having global min/max values.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10467155/
I believe you are referring to this patch.
I am primarily interested in the scaling scenario mentioned here. MSM and a few other hardware have scaling block that are used both ways:
- Where FB limits are larger than the display limits. Scalar blocks are
used to downscale the framebuffers and render within display limits.
In this scenario, with your patch, are you suggesting the drivers maintain the display limits locally and use those values in fill_modes() / mode_valid() to filter out invalid modes explicitly instead of mode_config.max_width/height?
- Where FB limits are smaller than display limits. Enforced for
performance reasons on low tier hardware. It reduces the fetch bandwidth and uses post blending scalar block to scale up the pixel stream to match the display resolution.
As Daniel mentioned in that discussion your typical userspace assumes that it can use a single unscaled framebuffer with any advertised mode. Hence I believe limiting the mode list based on the max framebuffer size is pretty much required unless you want to break existing userspace.
In i915 I went a bit further than that recently and now we filter the mode list based on the maximum plane size [1] (which can be less than the max fb size and less than the maximum crtc dimensions). And again that's because userspace assumes that it can just use a single unscaled fullscreen plane to cover the entire crtc.
These assumption are also carved into the legacy setcrtc uapi where you can't even specify multiple framebuffers. In theory a driver could internally use multiple planes to overcome some of the limitations, but in i915 at least we don't.
[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel/commit/?id=2d20411e25a3bf3d2914a2...
Any suggestions on how this topology can be handled with a single set of max/min values?
I think a safe way to relax these rules would be to either: a) Add a client cap by which userspace can inform the kernel it understands there are more complicated limits at play and thus can't assume that everything will just work
+1 on this approach. We already have that for 3d modes, another client cap for "modes bigger than max fb" sounds like a good idea.
For "max plane size" I'm leaning towards drivers should virtualize at least the primary plane if that's needed to scan out the biggest resolution. Since there's way too much userspace which will simply not work otherwise (iirc that's what a bunch of dual-pipe dsi drivers did).
b) Maybe we could just tie that in with the atomic cap since atomic clients are pretty much required to do the TEST_ONLY dance anyway, so one might hope they have a working fallback strategy. Though I suspect eg. the modesetting ddx wouldn't like this. But we no longer allow atomic with X anyway so that partcular argument may not hold much weight anymore.
What was the conclusion of the hack to not expose atomic to modesetting ddx, due to the brokenness of it's atomic use? I guess that could also make the modesetting case go away..
I thought it went in? Maybe I'm mistaken.
I did:
commit 26b1d3b527e7bf3e24b814d617866ac5199ce68d Author: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Date: Thu Sep 5 20:53:18 2019 +0200
drm/atomic: Take the atomic toys away from X
Cheers, Daniel
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