On 2018-03-28 09:34, Boris Brezillon wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:35:02 +0200 > Peter Rosin <p...@axentia.se> wrote: > >> I have an sama5d31-based system with 64MB of memory and a 1920x1080 >> LVDS display wired for 16-bpp. When I enable legacy fbdev support, >> the contiguous memory allocator invariably fails with the order-11 >> allocation for a 1920x1080@24-bpp buffer (~6MB). But this HW can never >> make any good use of RGB888, so that is a wasted attempt anyway that >> would also waste precious memory should it succeed. >> >> Sure, I could rewrite user-space to go directly to KMS etc, and that >> makes the (attempted) order-11 allocation go away, replacing it with >> one order-10 allocation per application restart for a 1920x1080@16-bpp >> buffer (<4MB). But after a few restarts, order-10 allocations start to >> fail as well, which is only to be expected AFAIU. >> >> So, I'd rather not change user-space (which was originally written >> to target a smaller display) so that I at the same time get the >> benefit of an early pre-allocated fbdev frame-buffer that can be >> reused over and over. But to do that I need to tell the driver that >> 16-bpp is the preferred depth. Add a module parameter to do just that. >> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <p...@axentia.se> >> --- >> drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_dc.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- >> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> I found some inspiration regarding naming and implementation here: >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9848631/ >> >> I have found no feedback on that patch though, which makes me wonder if >> I'm perhaps barking up the wronig tree? > > Hm, isn't that something you can already overload with the video= > parameter? > > video=<output>:<resolution>[-<bpp>]
Heh, you are right... > AFAIR, <bpp> encodes the color depth, so what is the benefit of adding > this new property to overload the default depth? ...but hhhmmm, I think I will have to have to encode the display size in the bootargs so I will have to use distinct barebox environments depending on the panel, but that's no biggie. Splendid, please throw away the patch! Cheers, Peter > Maybe I'm wrong and the default depth param is actually useful, but in > this case we should probably make it generic since other drivers seems > to need it too, and we might want to attach it to a specific display > engine instance. > > Thanks, > > Boris > >> >> Cheers, >> Peter >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_dc.c >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_dc.c >> index c1ea5c36b006..f0148627c221 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_dc.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_dc.c >> @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ >> >> #define ATMEL_HLCDC_LAYER_IRQS_OFFSET 8 >> >> +static int atmel_hlcdc_preferred_depth __read_mostly; >> + >> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(preferreddepth, "Set preferred bpp"); >> +module_param_named(preferreddepth, atmel_hlcdc_preferred_depth, int, 0400); >> + >> static const struct atmel_hlcdc_layer_desc atmel_hlcdc_at91sam9n12_layers[] >> = { >> { >> .name = "base", >> @@ -590,6 +595,7 @@ static int atmel_hlcdc_dc_modeset_init(struct drm_device >> *dev) >> dev->mode_config.min_height = dc->desc->min_height; >> dev->mode_config.max_width = dc->desc->max_width; >> dev->mode_config.max_height = dc->desc->max_height; >> + dev->mode_config.preferred_depth = 24; >> dev->mode_config.funcs = &mode_config_funcs; >> >> return 0; >> @@ -658,7 +664,7 @@ static int atmel_hlcdc_dc_load(struct drm_device *dev) >> >> platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dev); >> >> - drm_fb_cma_fbdev_init(dev, 24, 0); >> + drm_fb_cma_fbdev_init(dev, atmel_hlcdc_preferred_depth, 0); >> >> drm_kms_helper_poll_init(dev); >> >> @@ -756,6 +762,16 @@ static int atmel_hlcdc_dc_drm_probe(struct >> platform_device *pdev) >> struct drm_device *ddev; >> int ret; >> >> + switch (atmel_hlcdc_preferred_depth) { >> + case 0: /* driver default */ >> + case 8: >> + case 16: >> + case 24: >> + break; >> + default: >> + return -EINVAL; >> + } >> + >> ddev = drm_dev_alloc(&atmel_hlcdc_dc_driver, &pdev->dev); >> if (IS_ERR(ddev)) >> return PTR_ERR(ddev); > > > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel