Hi,
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:25:50AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 9:31 AM Yuran Pereira yuran.pereira@hotmail.com wrote:
Since "Clean up checks for already prepared/enabled in panels" has already been done and merged [1], I think there is no longer a need for this item to be in the gpu TODO.
[1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/551421/
Signed-off-by: Yuran Pereira yuran.pereira@hotmail.com
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It's not actually all done. It's in a bit of a limbo state right now, unfortunately. I landed all of the "simple" cases where panels were needlessly tracking prepare/enable, but the less simple cases are still outstanding.
Specifically the issue is that many panels have code to properly power cycle themselves off at shutdown time and in order to do that they need to keep track of the prepare/enable state. After a big, long discussion [1] it was decided that we could get rid of all the panel code handling shutdown if only all relevant DRM KMS drivers would properly call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown().
I made an attempt to get DRM KMS drivers to call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() [2] [3] [4]. I was able to land the patches that went through drm-misc, but currently many of the non-drm-misc ones are blocked waiting for attention.
...so things that could be done to help out:
a) Could review patches that haven't landed in [4]. Maybe adding a Reviewed-by tag would help wake up maintainers?
b) Could see if you can identify panels that are exclusively used w/ DRM drivers that have already been converted and then we could post patches for just those panels. I have no idea how easy this task would be. Is it enough to look at upstream dts files by "compatible" string?
I think it is, yes.
Maxime