On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 02:45:08PM -0800, Matt Roper wrote: > Since gen12 platform support isn't finalized yet, let's kill off the > legacy color key ioctl for this platform; there's no userspace today > that can run on this platform that utilizes this legacy ioctl, so we can > safely kill it now before it becomes ABI. > > Color key functionality never got integrated into the property / atomic > interface, and the only known open source consumer was the Intel DDX > which was never updated to run on platforms beyond gen9. If color > keying is desired going forward, it should really be exposed as a > property so that it can be applied atomically with other display updates > (and should probably be standardized in a way all drivers can choose to > support rather than being i915-specific). > > Arguably we might be able to prohibit this on gen10 and gen11 as well > since no open source userspace exists for those platforms that utilizes > these ioctls. However there's always the very slight chance that > unknown closed source software is actively utilizing the color key ioctl > on those platforms, so we should maintain the support there to avoid > breaking ABI.
Can't really see much point in this. The hardware hasn't changed so arbitrarily cutting this off won't simplify anything. > > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]> > Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Matt Roper <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sprite.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sprite.c > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sprite.c > index fca77ec1e0dd..6e8a4686a406 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sprite.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sprite.c > @@ -2290,6 +2290,14 @@ int intel_sprite_set_colorkey_ioctl(struct drm_device > *dev, void *data, > struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx ctx; > int ret = 0; > > + /* > + * Userspace that uses this legacy interface only exists up through > + * gen9. Discontinue support for the interface starting with gen12 so > + * that it doesn't become ABI on newer platforms. > + */ > + if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 12) > + return -EINVAL; > + > /* ignore the pointless "none" flag */ > set->flags &= ~I915_SET_COLORKEY_NONE; > > -- > 2.23.0 -- Ville Syrjälä Intel _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
