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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Vandana Kannan <vandana.kannan@intel.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com,
	rodrigo.vivi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] drm/i915: Modifying structures related to DRRS
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:13:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141218201315.GO2711@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141218162924.GK32100@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 04:29:24PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 09:02:15PM +0530, Vandana Kannan wrote:
> > Earlier, DRRS structures were specific to eDP (used only in intel_dp).
> > Since DRRS can be extended to other internal display types
> > (if the panel supports multiple RR), modifying structures
> > to be part of drm_i915_private and have a provision to add display related
> > structs like intel_dp.
> 
> What's the justification for drm_i915_private though? Why not extend the
> struct intel_panel? I think it is conceptually cleaner if PSR was part
> of the common panel logic rather than bolted onto the side of
> drm_i915_private - on such systems there is still likely to only be
> struct intel_panel attached to the connectors on the system.

Looking up intel_panel from both gem and modeset contexts is painful, so
imo putting it into i915_private is the right approach. We use the same
design with psr and probably soonish with fbc (when it's using the
frontbuffer tracking code).
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-18 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-18 15:32 [PATCH v2 0/8] eDP DRRS based on frontbuffer tracking Vandana Kannan
2014-12-18 15:32 ` [PATCH 1/7] drm/i915: Modifying structures related to DRRS Vandana Kannan
2014-12-18 16:29   ` Chris Wilson
2014-12-18 20:13     ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2014-12-18 15:32 ` [PATCH 2/7] drm/i915: Initialize DRRS delayed work Vandana Kannan
2014-12-18 15:32 ` [PATCH 3/7] drm/i915: Enable/disable DRRS Vandana Kannan
2014-12-18 15:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] drm/i915: DRRS calls based on frontbuffer Vandana Kannan
2014-12-18 20:15   ` Daniel Vetter
2014-12-18 15:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] drm/i915/bdw: Add support for DRRS to switch RR Vandana Kannan
2014-12-18 15:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] drm/i915: Support for RR switching on VLV Vandana Kannan
2014-12-18 15:32 ` [PATCH 7/7] drm/i915: Enable eDP DRRS for CHV Vandana Kannan
2014-12-19  9:42   ` shuang.he
2014-12-18 20:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] eDP DRRS based on frontbuffer tracking Daniel Vetter

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