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4 drm/vkms Virtual Kernel Modesetting
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7 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
8 :doc: vkms (Virtual Kernel Modesetting)
16 - Optimize CRC computation ``compute_crc()`` and plane blending ``blend()``
18 - Use the alpha value to blend vaddr_src with vaddr_dst instead of
19 overwriting it in ``blend()``.
21 - Add igt test to check cleared alpha value for XRGB plane format.
23 - Add igt test to check extreme alpha values i.e. fully opaque and fully
24 transparent (intermediate values are affected by hw-specific rounding modes).
29 We want to be able to reconfigure vkms instance without having to reload the
30 module. Use/Test-cases:
32 - Hotplug/hotremove connectors on the fly (to be able to test DP MST handling of
35 - Configure planes/crtcs/connectors (we'd need some code to have more than 1 of
38 - Change output configuration: Plug/unplug screens, change EDID, allow changing
41 The currently proposed solution is to expose vkms configuration through
42 configfs. All existing module options should be supported through configfs too.
47 There's lots of plane features we could add support for:
49 - Real overlay planes, not just cursor.
51 - Full alpha blending on all planes.
55 - Additional buffer formats, especially YUV formats for video like NV12.
56 Low/high bpp RGB formats would also be interesting.
58 - Async updates (currently only possible on cursor plane using the legacy cursor
61 For all of these, we also want to review the igt test coverage and make sure all
62 relevant igt testcases work on vkms.
67 Currently vkms only computes a CRC for each frame. Once we have additional plane
68 features, we could write back the entire composited frame, and expose it as:
70 - Writeback connector. This is useful for testing compositors if you don't have
71 hardware with writeback support.
73 - As a v4l device. This is useful for debugging compositors on special vkms
74 configurations, so that developers see what's really going on.
79 We already have vgem, which is a gem driver for testing rendering, similar to
80 how vkms is for testing the modeset side. Adding buffer sharing support to vkms
81 allows us to test them together, to test synchronization and lots of other
82 features. Also, this allows compositors to test whether they work correctly on
83 SoC chips, where the display and rendering is very often split between 2
89 - Variable refresh rate/freesync support. This probably needs prime buffer
90 sharing support, so that we can use vgem fences to simulate rendering in
91 testing. Also needs support to specify the EDID.
93 - Add support for link status, so that compositors can validate their runtime
94 fallbacks when e.g. a Display Port link goes bad.
96 - All the hotplug handling describe under "Runtime Configuration".
98 Atomic Check using eBPF
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101 Atomic drivers have lots of restrictions which are not exposed to userspace in
102 any explicit form through e.g. possible property values. Userspace can only
103 inquiry about these limits through the atomic IOCTL, possibly using the
104 TEST_ONLY flag. Trying to add configurable code for all these limits, to allow
105 compositors to be tested against them, would be rather futile exercise. Instead
106 we could add support for eBPF to validate any kind of atomic state, and
107 implement a library of different restrictions.
109 This needs a bunch of features (plane compositing, multiple outputs, ...)
110 enabled already to make sense.