[RFC v2 0/4] drm/i915: better high level abstraction for display

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>]

This is v2 of [1]. Improve the abstractions for display code.

The main goals are:

1) The display code does not access struct drm_i915_private or struct
   xe_device. It only uses its own struct intel_display instead.

2) The i915 and xe driver cores do not access struct intel_display
   directly. It becomes an opaque pointer to them, stored in struct
   drm_i915_private and struct xe_device, and passed to display code.

This will mean a lot of churn, unfortunately. But it will better
separate the display code from the xe and i915 driver cores, and pave
the way for a) removing -Ddrm_i915_private=xe_device from xe Makefile,
and b) stop building the display code twice.

What's presented here goes a long way, and could get us started. But
there are still opens, such as:

1) How to handle platform checks such as IS_TIGERLAKE().

2) How to handle access to non-display members of i915/xe, such as
   i915->uncore.

There are other similar things, but I believe those are the most
prevalent, and are the biggest blockers for converting a lot of
functions over from i915 -> intel_display.


BR,
Jani.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1695747484.git.jani.nikula@intel.com


Jani Nikula (4):
  drm/i915/display: ideas for further separating display code from the
    rest
  drm/i915/display: add generic to_intel_display() macro
  drm/i915/display: accept either i915 or display for feature tests
  drm/i915/display: test various to_intel_display() scenarios

 .../gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_core.h |  3 ++
 .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_device.c   | 13 ++++++
 .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_device.h   | 10 +++-
 .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_types.h    | 46 +++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c       |  6 +--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdmi.c     | 13 +++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h               | 11 ++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device_types.h          | 15 +++++-
 8 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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