Re: [PATCH V8 24/43] drm/amd/display: Skip color pipeline initialization for cursor plane

[Shengyu Qu <wiagn233@outlook.com>]

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在 2025/4/1 22:11, Michel Dänzer 写道:
> On 2025-04-01 14:32, Shengyu Qu wrote:
>> 在 2025/4/1 17:56, Michel Dänzer 写道:
>>> On 2025-03-31 19:42, Alex Hung wrote:
>>>> On 3/31/25 11:04, Shengyu Qu wrote:
>>>>> Or we can add some kind of "linked with" info to plane's COLOR_PIPELINE property, to let userspace know that cursor plane and background plane share the same colorop config. So that userspace could do extra conversion on cursor image data to avoid display wrong cursor color.
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>>>> That's over-complicate and makes little sense for both device drivers and userspace applications.
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>>>> If any planes share same colorop config, a device driver exposes the same color pipeline with the same colorops.
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>>>> If a plane does not support color pipeline or a driver doesn't want to support it, there is no color pipeline and no color objects.
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>>> I suspect using the cursor plane is generally higher priority for Wayland compositors than using overlay planes, because the former is critical for a responsive user experience.
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>>> This requires that the amdgpu DC driver backs the cursor plane with a dedicated HW plane though (as it's already doing in some cases), to either fully support color pipelines for the cursor plane, or at least provide proper "no color pipeline" behaviour for it. Letting the effective behaviour be determined by the other planes which happen to be behind the cursor plane isn't usable for Wayland compositors.
>> Current behavior is just disable colorop for both background plane and cursor plane.
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> Are you saying the color pipeline is implicitly disabled for any KMS planes which happen to be overlapped by the cursor plane?
According to this mail, I think so(unless I mistook about the meaning 
again):
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2025-April/122257.html

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> That sounds like a no go.
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>> I'm not sure how much planes does the hardware support, but if there are too less planes to use, maybe we still need to make use of the cursor background plane in the compositor.
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> If the HW has too few planes to allow both the cursor & overlay planes to work correctly (regardless of their dimensions), the driver should not allow enabling both kinds of planes at the same time.
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