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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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drm/komeda Arm display driver
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==============================
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The drm/komeda driver supports the Arm display processor D71 and later products,
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this document gives a brief overview of driver design: how it works and why
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design it like that.
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Overview of D71 like display IPs
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================================
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From D71, Arm display IP begins to adopt a flexible and modularized
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architecture. A display pipeline is made up of multiple individual and
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functional pipeline stages called components, and every component has some
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specific capabilities that can give the flowed pipeline pixel data a
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particular processing.
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Typical D71 components:
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Layer
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-----
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Layer is the first pipeline stage, which prepares the pixel data for the next
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stage. It fetches the pixel from memory, decodes it if it's AFBC, rotates the
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source image, unpacks or converts YUV pixels to the device internal RGB pixels,
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then adjusts the color_space of pixels if needed.
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Scaler
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------
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As its name suggests, scaler takes responsibility for scaling, and D71 also
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supports image enhancements by scaler.
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The usage of scaler is very flexible and can be connected to layer output
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for layer scaling, or connected to compositor and scale the whole display
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frame and then feed the output data into wb_layer which will then write it
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into memory.
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Compositor (compiz)
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-------------------
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Compositor blends multiple layers or pixel data flows into one single display
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frame. its output frame can be fed into post image processor for showing it on
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the monitor or fed into wb_layer and written to memory at the same time.
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user can also insert a scaler between compositor and wb_layer to down scale
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the display frame first and and then write to memory.
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Writeback Layer (wb_layer)
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--------------------------
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Writeback layer does the opposite things of Layer, which connects to compiz
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and writes the composition result to memory.
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Post image processor (improc)
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-----------------------------
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Post image processor adjusts frame data like gamma and color space to fit the
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requirements of the monitor.
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Timing controller (timing_ctrlr)
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--------------------------------
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Final stage of display pipeline, Timing controller is not for the pixel
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handling, but only for controlling the display timing.
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Merger
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------
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D71 scaler mostly only has the half horizontal input/output capabilities
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compared with Layer, like if Layer supports 4K input size, the scaler only can
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support 2K input/output in the same time. To achieve the ful frame scaling, D71
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introduces Layer Split, which splits the whole image to two half parts and feeds
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them to two Layers A and B, and does the scaling independently. After scaling
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the result need to be fed to merger to merge two part images together, and then
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output merged result to compiz.
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Splitter
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--------
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Similar to Layer Split, but Splitter is used for writeback, which splits the
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compiz result to two parts and then feed them to two scalers.
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Possible D71 Pipeline usage
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===========================
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Benefitting from the modularized architecture, D71 pipelines can be easily
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adjusted to fit different usages. And D71 has two pipelines, which support two
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types of working mode:
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- Dual display mode
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Two pipelines work independently and separately to drive two display outputs.
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- Single display mode
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Two pipelines work together to drive only one display output.
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On this mode, pipeline_B doesn't work indenpendently, but outputs its
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composition result into pipeline_A, and its pixel timing also derived from
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pipeline_A.timing_ctrlr. The pipeline_B works just like a "slave" of
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pipeline_A(master)
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Single pipeline data flow
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-------------------------
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.. kernel-render:: DOT
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:alt: Single pipeline digraph
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:caption: Single pipeline data flow
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digraph single_ppl {
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rankdir=LR;
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subgraph {
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"Memory";
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"Monitor";
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}
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subgraph cluster_pipeline {
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style=dashed
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node [shape=box]
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{
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node [bgcolor=grey style=dashed]
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"Scaler-0";
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"Scaler-1";
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"Scaler-0/1"
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}
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node [bgcolor=grey style=filled]
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"Layer-0" -> "Scaler-0"
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"Layer-1" -> "Scaler-0"
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"Layer-2" -> "Scaler-1"
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"Layer-3" -> "Scaler-1"
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"Layer-0" -> "Compiz"
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"Layer-1" -> "Compiz"
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"Layer-2" -> "Compiz"
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"Layer-3" -> "Compiz"
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"Scaler-0" -> "Compiz"
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"Scaler-1" -> "Compiz"
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"Compiz" -> "Scaler-0/1" -> "Wb_layer"
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"Compiz" -> "Improc" -> "Timing Controller"
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}
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"Wb_layer" -> "Memory"
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"Timing Controller" -> "Monitor"
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}
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Dual pipeline with Slave enabled
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--------------------------------
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.. kernel-render:: DOT
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:alt: Slave pipeline digraph
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:caption: Slave pipeline enabled data flow
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digraph slave_ppl {
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rankdir=LR;
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subgraph {
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"Memory";
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"Monitor";
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}
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node [shape=box]
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subgraph cluster_pipeline_slave {
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style=dashed
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label="Slave Pipeline_B"
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node [shape=box]
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{
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node [bgcolor=grey style=dashed]
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"Slave.Scaler-0";
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"Slave.Scaler-1";
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}
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node [bgcolor=grey style=filled]
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"Slave.Layer-0" -> "Slave.Scaler-0"
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"Slave.Layer-1" -> "Slave.Scaler-0"
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"Slave.Layer-2" -> "Slave.Scaler-1"
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"Slave.Layer-3" -> "Slave.Scaler-1"
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"Slave.Layer-0" -> "Slave.Compiz"
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"Slave.Layer-1" -> "Slave.Compiz"
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"Slave.Layer-2" -> "Slave.Compiz"
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"Slave.Layer-3" -> "Slave.Compiz"
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"Slave.Scaler-0" -> "Slave.Compiz"
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"Slave.Scaler-1" -> "Slave.Compiz"
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}
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subgraph cluster_pipeline_master {
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style=dashed
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label="Master Pipeline_A"
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node [shape=box]
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{
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node [bgcolor=grey style=dashed]
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"Scaler-0";
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"Scaler-1";
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"Scaler-0/1"
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}
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node [bgcolor=grey style=filled]
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"Layer-0" -> "Scaler-0"
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"Layer-1" -> "Scaler-0"
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"Layer-2" -> "Scaler-1"
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"Layer-3" -> "Scaler-1"
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"Slave.Compiz" -> "Compiz"
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"Layer-0" -> "Compiz"
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"Layer-1" -> "Compiz"
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"Layer-2" -> "Compiz"
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"Layer-3" -> "Compiz"
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"Scaler-0" -> "Compiz"
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"Scaler-1" -> "Compiz"
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"Compiz" -> "Scaler-0/1" -> "Wb_layer"
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"Compiz" -> "Improc" -> "Timing Controller"
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}
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"Wb_layer" -> "Memory"
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"Timing Controller" -> "Monitor"
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}
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Sub-pipelines for input and output
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----------------------------------
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A complete display pipeline can be easily divided into three sub-pipelines
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according to the in/out usage.
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Layer(input) pipeline
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.. kernel-render:: DOT
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:alt: Layer data digraph
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:caption: Layer (input) data flow
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digraph layer_data_flow {
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rankdir=LR;
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node [shape=box]
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{
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node [bgcolor=grey style=dashed]
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"Scaler-n";
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}
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"Layer-n" -> "Scaler-n" -> "Compiz"
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}
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.. kernel-render:: DOT
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:alt: Layer Split digraph
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:caption: Layer Split pipeline
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digraph layer_data_flow {
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rankdir=LR;
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node [shape=box]
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"Layer-0/1" -> "Scaler-0" -> "Merger"
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"Layer-2/3" -> "Scaler-1" -> "Merger"
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"Merger" -> "Compiz"
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}
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Writeback(output) pipeline
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.. kernel-render:: DOT
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:alt: writeback digraph
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:caption: Writeback(output) data flow
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digraph writeback_data_flow {
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rankdir=LR;
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node [shape=box]
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{
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node [bgcolor=grey style=dashed]
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"Scaler-n";
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}
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"Compiz" -> "Scaler-n" -> "Wb_layer"
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}
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.. kernel-render:: DOT
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:alt: split writeback digraph
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:caption: Writeback(output) Split data flow
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digraph writeback_data_flow {
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rankdir=LR;
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node [shape=box]
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"Compiz" -> "Splitter"
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"Splitter" -> "Scaler-0" -> "Merger"
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"Splitter" -> "Scaler-1" -> "Merger"
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"Merger" -> "Wb_layer"
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}
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Display output pipeline
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.. kernel-render:: DOT
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:alt: display digraph
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:caption: display output data flow
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digraph single_ppl {
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rankdir=LR;
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node [shape=box]
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"Compiz" -> "Improc" -> "Timing Controller"
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}
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In the following section we'll see these three sub-pipelines will be handled
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by KMS-plane/wb_conn/crtc respectively.
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Komeda Resource abstraction
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===========================
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struct komeda_pipeline/component
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--------------------------------
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To fully utilize and easily access/configure the HW, the driver side also uses
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a similar architecture: Pipeline/Component to describe the HW features and
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capabilities, and a specific component includes two parts:
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- Data flow controlling.
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- Specific component capabilities and features.
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So the driver defines a common header struct komeda_component to describe the
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data flow control and all specific components are a subclass of this base
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structure.
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_pipeline.h
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:internal:
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Resource discovery and initialization
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=====================================
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Pipeline and component are used to describe how to handle the pixel data. We
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still need a @struct komeda_dev to describe the whole view of the device, and
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the control-abilites of device.
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We have &komeda_dev, &komeda_pipeline, &komeda_component. Now fill devices with
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pipelines. Since komeda is not for D71 only but also intended for later products,
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of course we’d better share as much as possible between different products. To
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achieve this, split the komeda device into two layers: CORE and CHIP.
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- CORE: for common features and capabilities handling.
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- CHIP: for register programing and HW specific feature (limitation) handling.
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CORE can access CHIP by three chip function structures:
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- struct komeda_dev_funcs
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- struct komeda_pipeline_funcs
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- struct komeda_component_funcs
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.h
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:internal:
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Format handling
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===============
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_format_caps.h
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:internal:
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_framebuffer.h
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:internal:
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Attach komeda_dev to DRM-KMS
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============================
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Komeda abstracts resources by pipeline/component, but DRM-KMS uses
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crtc/plane/connector. One KMS-obj cannot represent only one single component,
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since the requirements of a single KMS object cannot simply be achieved by a
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single component, usually that needs multiple components to fit the requirement.
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Like set mode, gamma, ctm for KMS all target on CRTC-obj, but komeda needs
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compiz, improc and timing_ctrlr to work together to fit these requirements.
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And a KMS-Plane may require multiple komeda resources: layer/scaler/compiz.
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So, one KMS-Obj represents a sub-pipeline of komeda resources.
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- Plane: `Layer(input) pipeline`_
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- Wb_connector: `Writeback(output) pipeline`_
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- Crtc: `Display output pipeline`_
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So, for komeda, we treat KMS crtc/plane/connector as users of pipeline and
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component, and at any one time a pipeline/component only can be used by one
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user. And pipeline/component will be treated as private object of DRM-KMS; the
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state will be managed by drm_atomic_state as well.
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How to map plane to Layer(input) pipeline
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-----------------------------------------
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Komeda has multiple Layer input pipelines, see:
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- `Single pipeline data flow`_
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- `Dual pipeline with Slave enabled`_
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The easiest way is binding a plane to a fixed Layer pipeline, but consider the
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komeda capabilities:
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- Layer Split, See `Layer(input) pipeline`_
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Layer_Split is quite complicated feature, which splits a big image into two
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parts and handles it by two layers and two scalers individually. But it
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imports an edge problem or effect in the middle of the image after the split.
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To avoid such a problem, it needs a complicated Split calculation and some
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special configurations to the layer and scaler. We'd better hide such HW
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related complexity to user mode.
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- Slave pipeline, See `Dual pipeline with Slave enabled`_
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Since the compiz component doesn't output alpha value, the slave pipeline
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only can be used for bottom layers composition. The komeda driver wants to
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hide this limitation to the user. The way to do this is to pick a suitable
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Layer according to plane_state->zpos.
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So for komeda, the KMS-plane doesn't represent a fixed komeda layer pipeline,
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but multiple Layers with same capabilities. Komeda will select one or more
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Layers to fit the requirement of one KMS-plane.
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Make component/pipeline to be drm_private_obj
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---------------------------------------------
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Add :c:type:`drm_private_obj` to :c:type:`komeda_component`, :c:type:`komeda_pipeline`
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.. code-block:: c
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struct komeda_component {
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struct drm_private_obj obj;
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...
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}
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struct komeda_pipeline {
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struct drm_private_obj obj;
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...
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}
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Tracking component_state/pipeline_state by drm_atomic_state
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-----------------------------------------------------------
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Add :c:type:`drm_private_state` and user to :c:type:`komeda_component_state`,
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:c:type:`komeda_pipeline_state`
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.. code-block:: c
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struct komeda_component_state {
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struct drm_private_state obj;
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void *binding_user;
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...
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}
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struct komeda_pipeline_state {
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struct drm_private_state obj;
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struct drm_crtc *crtc;
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...
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}
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komeda component validation
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---------------------------
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Komeda has multiple types of components, but the process of validation are
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similar, usually including the following steps:
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.. code-block:: c
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int komeda_xxxx_validate(struct komeda_component_xxx xxx_comp,
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struct komeda_component_output *input_dflow,
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struct drm_plane/crtc/connector *user,
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struct drm_plane/crtc/connector_state, *user_state)
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{
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setup 1: check if component is needed, like the scaler is optional depending
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on the user_state; if unneeded, just return, and the caller will
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put the data flow into next stage.
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Setup 2: check user_state with component features and capabilities to see
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if requirements can be met; if not, return fail.
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Setup 3: get component_state from drm_atomic_state, and try set to set
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user to component; fail if component has been assigned to another
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user already.
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Setup 3: configure the component_state, like set its input component,
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convert user_state to component specific state.
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Setup 4: adjust the input_dflow and prepare it for the next stage.
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}
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komeda_kms Abstraction
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----------------------
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_kms.h
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:internal:
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komde_kms Functions
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-------------------
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_crtc.c
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:internal:
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_plane.c
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:internal:
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Build komeda to be a Linux module driver
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========================================
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Now we have two level devices:
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- komeda_dev: describes the real display hardware.
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- komeda_kms_dev: attachs or connects komeda_dev to DRM-KMS.
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All komeda operations are supplied or operated by komeda_dev or komeda_kms_dev,
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the module driver is only a simple wrapper to pass the Linux command
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(probe/remove/pm) into komeda_dev or komeda_kms_dev.
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