It is all glorious if we try really hard to only enable/disable an
entire display pipe to ensure that everyting happens in the right
order. But if we don't know the output configuration when the driver
takes over, this will all be for vain because we'll make the hw angry
right on the first modeset - we don't know what outputs/ports are
enabled and hence have to disable everything in a rather ad-hoc way.
Hence we need to be able to read out the current hw state, so that we
can properly tear down the current hw state on the first modeset.
Obviously this is also a nice preparation for the fastboot work, where
we try to avoid the modeset on driver load if it matches what the hw
is currently using.
Furthermore we'll be using these functions to cross-check the actual
hw state with what we think it should be, to ensure that the modeset
state machine actually works as advertised.
This patch only contains the interface definitions and a little helper
for the simple case where we have a 1:1 encoder to connector mapping.
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).
The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:
1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.
2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
restricted regions of memory.
3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
switch.
4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.
Documentation on the DRI is available from:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/
For specific information about kernel-level support, see:
The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html
A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html
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