Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce BACKGROUND_COLOR DRM CRTC property

["Diederik de Haas" <diederik@cknow-tech.com>]

On Fri Dec 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM CET, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> Some display controllers can be hardware-configured to present non-black
> colors for pixels which are not covered by any plane (or are exposed
> through transparent regions of higher planes).
> ...
> The subsequent patches add background color support to VKMS and the VOP2
> display controller used in the RK3568, RK3576, and RK3588 Rockchip SoC
> families.

As previously reported against the v3, while I actually tested v4 ...

Cristian provided a helper script which would show a test pattern and
then iterate through setting Red, Green, Blue background color and then
set it back to the original value.

I first tested this on a Rock 5B (RK3588).
Without this patch set, the background color was Black with every
iteration. But with this patch set, I did see a Red, Green and Blue
background color, after which it was set back to Black.

diederik@rock5b:~$ grep -E "^Changing prop|^Read BACKGROUND_COLOR" bgcol-test-bash-user.log
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff000000000000
Changing prop value to: 0xffff00000000ffff
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff00000000ffff
Changing prop value to 0xffffffff00000000
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffffffff00000000
Changing prop value to 0xffff0000ffff0000
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff0000ffff0000
Changing prop value to 0xffff00000000ffff
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff00000000ffff
Changing prop value to: 0xffff000000000000
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff000000000000

I then did the same test on a Quartz64-B (RK3566) and that too showed a
Red, Green and Blue background color and then was set back to Black.

diederik@quartz64b:~$ grep -E "^Changing prop|^Read BACKGROUND_COLOR" bgcol-test-bash-user-q64b.log
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff000000000000
Changing prop value to: 0xffff00000000ffff
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff00000000ffff
Changing prop value to 0xffffffff00000000
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffffffff00000000
Changing prop value to 0xffff0000ffff0000
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff0000ffff0000
Changing prop value to 0xffff00000000ffff
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff00000000ffff
Changing prop value to: 0xffff000000000000
Read BACKGROUND_COLOR prop (ARGB64): 0xffff000000000000

So this patch set does what it is supposed to do, so feel free to add:

Tested-by: Diederik de Haas <diederik@cknow-tech.com>

Cheers,
  Diederik

>
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com>
> ---
> Changes in v4:
> - Switched to simple bit-shifting approach when performing the bpc
>   conversion in the vop2 driver, to avoid the expensive division since
>   we shouldn't be concerned anymore about the precision (Chaoyi)
> - Rebased series onto latest drm-misc-next
> - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251118-rk3588-bgcolor-v3-0-a2cc909428ea@collabora.com
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Added new patches:
>   * uapi: Provide DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST()
>   * drm/vkms: Support setting custom background color
> - Improved DRM_ARGB64_{PREP|GET}*() helpers by using a conversion ratio
>   for better color approximation when dealing with less than 16 bits of
>   precision
> - Mentioned the IGT test in the cover letter while documenting the
>   validation results; also dropped references to the now useless
>   modetest wrapper script and its generated report
> - Rebased series onto latest drm-misc-next
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251013-rk3588-bgcolor-v2-0-25cc3810ba8c@collabora.com
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Improved uAPI consistency and readability by introducing
>   DRM_ARGB64_PREP*() and DRM_ARGB64_GET*() helper macros
> - Updated several code comment sections
> - Referenced the counterpart Weston support in the cover letter
> - Rebased series onto v6.18-rc1
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250902-rk3588-bgcolor-v1-0-fd97df91d89f@collabora.com
>
> ---
> Cristian Ciocaltea (4):
>       uapi: Provide DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST()
>       drm: Add CRTC background color property
>       drm/vkms: Support setting custom background color
>       drm/rockchip: vop2: Support setting custom background color
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c    |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c            |  4 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c                  | 39 ++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c            |  6 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_vop2.c | 13 +++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_vop2.h |  4 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_composer.c         | 10 ++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c             |  3 ++
>  include/drm/drm_blend.h                      |  4 +-
>  include/drm/drm_crtc.h                       | 12 +++++
>  include/drm/drm_mode_config.h                |  5 +++
>  include/linux/math.h                         | 18 +-------
>  include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h                  | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/const.h                   | 17 +++++++
>  14 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 8e7460eac786c72f48c4e04ce9be692b939428ce
> change-id: 20250829-rk3588-bgcolor-c1a7b9a507bc
>
>
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