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Ville Syrjälä 9677547d83 drm: Introduce plane SIZE_HINTS property
Add a new immutable plane property by which a plane can advertise
a handful of recommended plane sizes. This would be mostly exposed
by cursor planes as a slightly more capable replacement for
the DRM_CAP_CURSOR_WIDTH/HEIGHT caps, which can only declare
a one size fits all limit for the whole device.

Currently eg. amdgpu/i915/nouveau just advertize the max cursor
size via the cursor size caps. But always using the max sized
cursor can waste a surprising amount of power, so a better
strategy is desirable.

Most other drivers don't specify any cursor size at all, in
which case the ioctl code just claims that 64x64 is a great
choice. Whether that is actually true is debatable.

A poll of various compositor developers informs us that
blindly probing with setcursor/atomic ioctl to determine
suitable cursor sizes is not acceptable, thus the
introduction of the new property to supplant the cursor
size caps. The compositor will now be free to select a
more optimal cursor size from the short list of options.

Note that the reported sizes (either via the property or the
caps) make no claims about things such as plane scaling. So
these things should only really be consulted for simple
"cursor like" use cases.

Userspace consumer in the form of mutter seems ready:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3165

v2: Try to add some docs
v3: Specify that value 0 is reserved for future use (basic idea from Jonas)
    Drop the note about typical hardware (Pekka)
v4: Update the docs to indicate the list is "in order of preference"
    Add a a link to the mutter MR
v5: Limit to cursors only for now (Simon)

Cc: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@redhat.com>
Cc: Sameer Lattannavar <sameer.lattannavar@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Wick <sebastian.wick@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240318204408.9687-2-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
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arch Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next 2024-04-02 09:51:30 +02:00
block block-6.9-20240329 2024-03-29 09:40:22 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation dt-bindings: display: bridge: it6505: Add #sound-dai-cells 2024-04-08 02:09:36 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.