Re: [PATCH] drm/vc4: Allow fb modifiers early enough to fill IN_FORMATS property

[Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>]

On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 13:08 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 03:36:20PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com> writes:
> > 
> > > The KMS mode_config elements are currently configured in vc4_kms_load,
> > > that is called after all components are binded (component_bind_all).
> > > However, the CRTC component (for the Pixel Valve) needs to access the
> > > allow_fb_modifiers element at bind time, when initializing its planes
> > > through drm_universal_plane_init.
> > > 
> > > This helpers checks allow_fb_modifiers to decide whether to fill the
> > > IN_FORMATS property. Because allow_fb_modifiers is still set to false
> > > at this point, the property is never filled and userspace cannot
> > > retrieve the combination of supported formats and modifiers.
> > > 
> > > Fix this by setting allow_fb_modifiers right after calling
> > > drm_mode_config_init (which initializes the structure), before binding
> > > the components of the driver.
> > 
> > This makes me wonder if the flag could be removed and replaced with "did
> > non-NULL modifiers get supplied to plane init?"  I think I've tripped
> > over this flag in other KMS hacking, too.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Just setting it in plane_init should work I
> think ...

Yeah, we probably need to keep the flag around since it's used in
various places, but we could totally have it auto-set as soon as a
plane is registered with a list of modifiers.

I was also thinking of allowing the core to fill-in the IN_FORMATS prop
even without this flag set, which would only list formats (but not
modifiers).

What do you think?

Cheers,

Paul

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Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
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