Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Implement pipe CSC based limited range RGB output

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 05:30:12PM -0200, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 2013/1/18  <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>:
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > HSW no longer has the PIPECONF bit for limited range RGB output.
> > Instead the pipe CSC unit must be used to perform that task.
> >
> > The CSC pre offset are set to 0, since the incoming data is full
> > [0:255] range RGB, the coefficients are programmed to compress the
> > data into [0:219] range, and then we use either the CSC_MODE black
> > screen offset bit, or the CSC post offsets to shift the data to
> > the correct [16:235] range.
> >
> > Also have to change the confiuration of all planes so that the
> > data is sent through the pipe CSC unit. For simplicity send the
> > plane data through the pipe CSC unit always, and in case full
> > range output is requested, the pipe CSC unit is set up with an
> > identity transform to pass the plane data through unchanged.
> >
> > I've been told by some hardware people that the use of the pipe
> > CSC unit shouldn't result in any measurable increase in power
> > consumption numbers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
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