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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-01 21:44:08 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-01 21:44:08 -0400
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treed2b9c3e0a98b94dfc3e4e60e35622c0143ef4ed4 /Documentation
parent77a87824ed676ca8ff8482e4157d3adb284fd381 (diff)
parent753e7c8cbd8c503b962294303c7b5e9ea8513443 (diff)
Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
Merge drm updates from Dave Airlie: "This is the main drm pull request for 4.8. I'm down with a cold at the moment so hopefully this isn't in too bad a state, I finished pulling stuff last week mostly (nouveau fixes just went in today), so only this message should be influenced by illness. Apologies to anyone who's major feature I missed :-) Core: Lockless GEM BO freeing Non-blocking atomic work Documentation changes (rst/sphinx) Prep for new fencing changes Simple display helpers Master/auth changes Register/unregister rework Loads of trivial patches/fixes. New stuff: ARM Mali display driver (not the 3D chip) sii902x RGB->HDMI bridge Panel: Support for new panels Improved backlight support Bridge: Convert ADV7511 to bridge driver ADV7533 support TC358767 (DSI/DPI to eDP) encoder chip support i915: BXT support enabled by default GVT-g infrastructure GuC command submission and fixes BXT workarounds SKL/BKL workarounds Demidlayering device registration Thundering herd fixes Missing pci ids Atomic updates amdgpu/radeon: ATPX improvements for better dGPU power control on PX systems New power features for CZ/BR/ST Pipelined BO moves and evictions in TTM GPU scheduler improvements GPU reset improvements Overclocking on dGPUs with amdgpu Polaris powermanagement enabled nouveau: GK20A/GM20B volt and clock improvements. Initial support for GP100/GP104 GPUs, GP104 will not yet support acceleration due to NVIDIA having not released firmware for them as of yet. exynos: Exynos5433 SoC with IOMMU support. vc4: Shader validation for branching imx-drm: Atomic mode setting conversion Reworked DMFC FIFO allocation External bridge support analogix-dp: RK3399 eDP support Lots of fixes. rockchip: Lots of small fixes. msm: DT bindings cleanups Shrinker and madvise support ASoC HDMI codec support tegra: Host1x driver cleanups SOR reworking for DP support Runtime PM support omapdrm: PLL enhancements Header refactoring Gamma table support arcgpu: Simulator support virtio-gpu: Atomic modesetting fixes. rcar-du: Misc fixes. mediatek: MT8173 HDMI support sti: ASOC HDMI codec support Minor fixes fsl-dcu: Suspend/resume support Bridge support amdkfd: Minor fixes. etnaviv: Enable GPU clock gating hisilicon: Vblank and other fixes" * tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1575 commits) drm/nouveau/gr/nv3x: fix instobj write offsets in gr setup drm/nouveau/acpi: fix lockup with PCIe runtime PM drm/nouveau/acpi: check for function 0x1B before using it drm/nouveau/acpi: return supported DSM functions drm/nouveau/acpi: ensure matching ACPI handle and supported functions drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix font width not divisible by 8 drm/amd/powerplay: remove enable_clock_power_gatings_tasks from initialize and resume events drm/amd/powerplay: move clockgating to after ungating power in pp for uvd/vce drm/amdgpu: add query device id and revision id into system info entry at CGS drm/amdgpu: add new definition in bif header drm/amd/powerplay: rename smum header guards drm/amdgpu: enable UVD context buffer for older HW drm/amdgpu: fix default UVD context size drm/amdgpu: fix incorrect type of info_id drm/amdgpu: make amdgpu_cgs_call_acpi_method as static drm/amdgpu: comment out unused defaults_staturn_pro static const structure to fix the build drm/amdgpu: enable UVD VM only on polaris drm/amdgpu: increase timeout of IB test drm/amdgpu: add destroy session when generate VCE destroy msg. drm/amd: fix deadlock of job_list_lock V2 ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl3540
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/arm,malidp.txt65
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/adi,adv7511.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/analogix_dp.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/sii902x.txt35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/toshiba,tc358767.txt53
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/connector/hdmi-connector.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/fsl,dcu.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,hdmi.txt148
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/msm/dsi.txt117
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/msm/mdp.txt59
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/msm/mdp4.txt112
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/msm/mdp5.txt160
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/lg,lp079qx1-sp0v.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/lg,lp097qx1-spa1.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-dpi.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/samsung,lsn122dl01-c01.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/sharp,lq101k1ly04.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/sharp,lq123p1jx31.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/starry,kr122ea0sra.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/rockchip/analogix_dp-rockchip.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-host1x.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/nvidia,tegra124-dpaux-padctl.txt60
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst381
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst260
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst653
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst454
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst111
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/i915.rst347
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/index.rst14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst51
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/kms-properties.csv128
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/vga-switcheroo.rst98
-rw-r--r--Documentation/index.rst1
37 files changed, 3306 insertions, 3651 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 01bab5014a4a..8e6dd4b14314 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml device-drivers.xml \
genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml \
80211.xml debugobjects.xml sh.xml regulator.xml \
alsa-driver-api.xml writing-an-alsa-driver.xml \
- tracepoint.xml gpu.xml media_api.xml w1.xml \
+ tracepoint.xml media_api.xml w1.xml \
writing_musb_glue_layer.xml crypto-API.xml iio.xml
include Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
index 99cdc05bbb7a..9c10030eb2be 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
!Iinclude/linux/fence.h
!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c
!Iinclude/linux/seqno-fence.h
+!Edrivers/dma-buf/fence-array.c
+!Iinclude/linux/fence-array.h
+!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
+!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h
!Edrivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
!Iinclude/linux/sync_file.h
</sect2>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl
deleted file mode 100644
index 7586bf75f62e..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3540 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
-
-<book id="gpuDevelopersGuide">
- <bookinfo>
- <title>Linux GPU Driver Developer's Guide</title>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <firstname>Jesse</firstname>
- <surname>Barnes</surname>
- <contrib>Initial version</contrib>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>Intel Corporation</orgname>
- <address>
- <email>jesse.barnes@intel.com</email>
- </address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- <author>
- <firstname>Laurent</firstname>
- <surname>Pinchart</surname>
- <contrib>Driver internals</contrib>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>Ideas on board SPRL</orgname>
- <address>
- <email>laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com</email>
- </address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- <author>
- <firstname>Daniel</firstname>
- <surname>Vetter</surname>
- <contrib>Contributions all over the place</contrib>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>Intel Corporation</orgname>
- <address>
- <email>daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch</email>
- </address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- <author>
- <firstname>Lukas</firstname>
- <surname>Wunner</surname>
- <contrib>vga_switcheroo documentation</contrib>
- <affiliation>
- <address>
- <email>lukas@wunner.de</email>
- </address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
-
- <copyright>
- <year>2008-2009</year>
- <year>2013-2014</year>
- <holder>Intel Corporation</holder>
- </copyright>
- <copyright>
- <year>2012</year>
- <holder>Laurent Pinchart</holder>
- </copyright>
- <copyright>
- <year>2015</year>
- <holder>Lukas Wunner</holder>
- </copyright>
-
- <legalnotice>
- <para>
- The contents of this file may be used under the terms of the GNU
- General Public License version 2 (the "GPL") as distributed in
- the kernel source COPYING file.
- </para>
- </legalnotice>
-
- <revhistory>
- <!-- Put document revisions here, newest first. -->
- <revision>
- <revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
- <date>2012-07-13</date>
- <authorinitials>LP</authorinitials>
- <revremark>Added extensive documentation about driver internals.
- </revremark>
- </revision>
- <revision>
- <revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
- <date>2015-10-11</date>
- <authorinitials>LW</authorinitials>
- <revremark>Added vga_switcheroo documentation.
- </revremark>
- </revision>
- </revhistory>
- </bookinfo>
-
-<toc></toc>
-
-<part id="drmCore">
- <title>DRM Core</title>
- <partintro>
- <para>
- This first part of the GPU Driver Developer's Guide documents core DRM
- code, helper libraries for writing drivers and generic userspace
- interfaces exposed by DRM drivers.
- </para>
- </partintro>
-
- <chapter id="drmIntroduction">
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <para>
- The Linux DRM layer contains code intended to support the needs
- of complex graphics devices, usually containing programmable
- pipelines well suited to 3D graphics acceleration. Graphics
- drivers in the kernel may make use of DRM functions to make
- tasks like memory management, interrupt handling and DMA easier,
- and provide a uniform interface to applications.
- </para>
- <para>
- A note on versions: this guide covers features found in the DRM
- tree, including the TTM memory manager, output configuration and
- mode setting, and the new vblank internals, in addition to all
- the regular features found in current kernels.
- </para>
- <para>
- [Insert diagram of typical DRM stack here]
- </para>
- <sect1>
- <title>Style Guidelines</title>
- <para>
- For consistency this documentation uses American English. Abbreviations
- are written as all-uppercase, for example: DRM, KMS, IOCTL, CRTC, and so
- on. To aid in reading, documentations make full use of the markup
- characters kerneldoc provides: @parameter for function parameters, @member
- for structure members, &amp;structure to reference structures and
- function() for functions. These all get automatically hyperlinked if
- kerneldoc for the referenced objects exists. When referencing entries in
- function vtables please use -&gt;vfunc(). Note that kerneldoc does
- not support referencing struct members directly, so please add a reference
- to the vtable struct somewhere in the same paragraph or at least section.
- </para>
- <para>
- Except in special situations (to separate locked from unlocked variants)
- locking requirements for functions aren't documented in the kerneldoc.
- Instead locking should be check at runtime using e.g.
- <code>WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(...));</code>. Since it's much easier to
- ignore documentation than runtime noise this provides more value. And on
- top of that runtime checks do need to be updated when the locking rules
- change, increasing the chances that they're correct. Within the
- documentation the locking rules should be explained in the relevant
- structures: Either in the comment for the lock explaining what it
- protects, or data fields need a note about which lock protects them, or
- both.
- </para>
- <para>
- Functions which have a non-<code>void</code> return value should have a
- section called "Returns" explaining the expected return values in
- different cases and their meanings. Currently there's no consensus whether
- that section name should be all upper-case or not, and whether it should
- end in a colon or not. Go with the file-local style. Other common section
- names are "Notes" with information for dangerous or tricky corner cases,
- and "FIXME" where the interface could be cleaned up.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
-
- <!-- Internals -->
-
- <chapter id="drmInternals">
- <title>DRM Internals</title>
- <para>
- This chapter documents DRM internals relevant to driver authors
- and developers working to add support for the latest features to
- existing drivers.
- </para>
- <para>
- First, we go over some typical driver initialization
- requirements, like setting up command buffers, creating an
- initial output configuration, and initializing core services.
- Subsequent sections cover core internals in more detail,
- providing implementation notes and examples.
- </para>
- <para>
- The DRM layer provides several services to graphics drivers,
- many of them driven by the application interfaces it provides
- through libdrm, the library that wraps most of the DRM ioctls.
- These include vblank event handling, memory
- management, output management, framebuffer management, command
- submission &amp; fencing, suspend/resume support, and DMA
- services.
- </para>
-
- <!-- Internals: driver init -->
-
- <sect1>
- <title>Driver Initialization</title>
- <para>
- At the core of every DRM driver is a <structname>drm_driver</structname>
- structure. Drivers typically statically initialize a drm_driver structure,
- and then pass it to <function>drm_dev_alloc()</function> to allocate a
- device instance. After the device instance is fully initialized it can be
- registered (which makes it accessible from userspace) using
- <function>drm_dev_register()</function>.
- </para>
- <para>
- The <structname>drm_driver</structname> structure contains static
- information that describes the driver and features it supports, and
- pointers to methods that the DRM core will call to implement the DRM API.
- We will first go through the <structname>drm_driver</structname> static
- information fields, and will then describe individual operations in
- details as they get used in later sections.
- </para>
- <sect2>
- <title>Driver Information</title>
- <sect3>
- <title>Driver Features</title>
- <para>
- Drivers inform the DRM core about their requirements and supported
- features by setting appropriate flags in the
- <structfield>driver_features</structfield> field. Since those flags
- influence the DRM core behaviour since registration time, most of them
- must be set to registering the <structname>drm_driver</structname>
- instance.
- </para>
- <synopsis>u32 driver_features;</synopsis>
- <variablelist>
- <title>Driver Feature Flags</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_USE_AGP</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver uses AGP interface, the DRM core will manage AGP resources.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_REQUIRE_AGP</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver needs AGP interface to function. AGP initialization failure
- will become a fatal error.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_PCI_DMA</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver is capable of PCI DMA, mapping of PCI DMA buffers to
- userspace will be enabled. Deprecated.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_SG</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver can perform scatter/gather DMA, allocation and mapping of
- scatter/gather buffers will be enabled. Deprecated.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_HAVE_DMA</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver supports DMA, the userspace DMA API will be supported.
- Deprecated.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ</term><term>DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED</term>
- <listitem><para>
- DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ indicates whether the driver has an IRQ handler
- managed by the DRM Core. The core will support simple IRQ handler
- installation when the flag is set. The installation process is
- described in <xref linkend="drm-irq-registration"/>.</para>
- <para>DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED indicates whether the device &amp; handler
- support shared IRQs (note that this is required of PCI drivers).
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_GEM</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver use the GEM memory manager.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_MODESET</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver supports mode setting interfaces (KMS).
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_PRIME</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver implements DRM PRIME buffer sharing.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_RENDER</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver supports dedicated render nodes.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>DRIVER_ATOMIC</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Driver supports atomic properties. In this case the driver
- must implement appropriate obj->atomic_get_property() vfuncs
- for any modeset objects with driver specific properties.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect3>
- <sect3>
- <title>Major, Minor and Patchlevel</title>
- <synopsis>int major;
-int minor;
-int patchlevel;</synopsis>
- <para>
- The DRM core identifies driver versions by a major, minor and patch
- level triplet. The information is printed to the kernel log at
- initialization time and passed to userspace through the
- DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
- </para>
- <para>
- The major and minor numbers are also used to verify the requested driver
- API version passed to DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION. When the driver API changes
- between minor versions, applications can call DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION to
- select a specific version of the API. If the requested major isn't equal
- to the driver major, or the requested minor is larger than the driver
- minor, the DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION call will return an error. Otherwise
- the driver's set_version() method will be called with the requested
- version.
- </para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3>
- <title>Name, Description and Date</title>
- <synopsis>char *name;
-char *desc;
-char *date;</synopsis>
- <para>
- The driver name is printed to the kernel log at initialization time,
- used for IRQ registration and passed to userspace through
- DRM_IOCTL_VERSION.
- </para>
- <para>
- The driver description is a purely informative string passed to
- userspace through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl and otherwise unused by
- the kernel.
- </para>
- <para>
- The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date of
- the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers fail to
- update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it to the
- kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace through the
- DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
- </para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>Device Instance and Driver Handling</title>
-!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c driver instance overview
-!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>Driver Load</title>
- <sect3 id="drm-irq-registration">
- <title>IRQ Registration</title>
- <para>
- The DRM core tries to facilitate IRQ handler registration and
- unregistration by providing <function>drm_irq_install</function> and
- <function>drm_irq_uninstall</function> functions. Those functions only
- support a single interrupt per device, devices that use more than one
- IRQs need to be handled manually.
- </para>
- <sect4>
- <title>Managed IRQ Registration</title>
- <para>
- <function>drm_irq_install</function> starts by calling the
- <methodname>irq_preinstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
- is optional and must make sure that the interrupt will not get fired by
- clearing all pending interrupt flags or disabling the interrupt.
- </para>
- <para>
- The passed-in IRQ will then be requested by a call to
- <function>request_irq</function>. If the DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED driver
- feature flag is set, a shared (IRQF_SHARED) IRQ handler will be
- requested.
- </para>
- <para>
- The IRQ handler function must be provided as the mandatory irq_handler
- driver operation. It will get passed directly to
- <function>request_irq</function> and thus has the same prototype as all
- IRQ handlers. It will get called with a pointer to the DRM device as the
- second argument.
- </para>
- <para>
- Finally the function calls the optional
- <methodname>irq_postinstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
- usually enables interrupts (excluding the vblank interrupt, which is
- enabled separately), but drivers may choose to enable/disable interrupts
- at a different time.
- </para>
- <para>
- <function>drm_irq_uninstall</function> is similarly used to uninstall an
- IRQ handler. It starts by waking up all processes waiting on a vblank
- interrupt to make sure they don't hang, and then calls the optional
- <methodname>irq_uninstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
- must disable all hardware interrupts. Finally the function frees the IRQ
- by calling <function>free_irq</function>.
- </para>
- </sect4>
- <sect4>
- <title>Manual IRQ Registration</title>
- <para>
- Drivers that require multiple interrupt handlers can't use the managed
- IRQ registration functions. In that case IRQs must be registered and
- unregistered manually (usually with the <function>request_irq</function>
- and <function>free_irq</function> functions, or their devm_* equivalent).
- </para>
- <para>
- When manually registering IRQs, drivers must not set the DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ
- driver feature flag, and must not provide the
- <methodname>irq_handler</methodname> driver operation. They must set the
- <structname>drm_device</structname> <structfield>irq_enabled</structfield>
- field to 1 upon registration of the IRQs, and clear it to 0 after
- unregistering the IRQs.
- </para>
- </sect4>
- </sect3>
- <sect3>
- <title>Memory Manager Initialization</title>
- <para>
- Every DRM driver requires a memory manager which must be initialized at
- load time. DRM currently contains two memory managers, the Translation
- Table Manager (TTM) and the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM).
- This document describes the use of the GEM memory manager only. See
- <xref linkend="drm-memory-management"/> for details.
- </para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3>
- <title>Miscellaneous Device Configuration</title>
- <para>
- Another task that may be necessary for PCI devices during configuration
- is mapping the video BIOS. On many devices, the VBIOS describes device
- configuration, LCD panel timings (if any), and contains flags indicating
- device state. Mapping the BIOS can be done using the pci_map_rom() call,
- a convenience function that takes care of mapping the actual ROM,
- whether it has been shadowed into memory (typically at address 0xc0000)
- or exists on the PCI device in the ROM BAR. Note that after the ROM has
- been mapped and any necessary information has been extracted, it should
- be unmapped; on many devices, the ROM address decoder is shared with
- other BARs, so leaving it mapped could cause undesired behaviour like
- hangs or memory corruption.
- <!--!Fdrivers/pci/rom.c pci_map_rom-->
- </para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>Bus-specific Device Registration and PCI Support</title>
- <para>
- A number of functions are provided to help with device registration.
- The functions deal with PCI and platform devices respectively and are
- only provided for historical reasons. These are all deprecated and
- shouldn't be used in new drivers. Besides that there's a few
- helpers for pci drivers.
- </para>
-!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_pci.c
-!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_platform.c
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
- <!-- Internals: memory management -->
-
- <sect1 id="drm-memory-management">
- <title>Memory management</title>
- <para>
- Modern Linux systems require large amount of graphics memory to store
- frame buffers, textures, vertices and other graphics-related data. Given
- the very dynamic nature of many of that data, managing graphics memory
- efficiently is thus crucial for the graphics stack and plays a central
- role in the DRM infrastructure.
- </para>
- <para>
- The DRM core includes two memory managers, namely Translation Table Maps
- (TTM) and Graphics Execution Manager (GEM). TTM was the first DRM memory
- manager to be developed and tried to be a one-size-fits-them all
- solution. It provides a single userspace API to accommodate the need of
- all hardware, supporting both Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) devices
- and devices with dedicated video RAM (i.e. most discrete video cards).
- This resulted in a large, complex piece of code that turned out to be
- hard to use for driver development.
- </para>
- <para>
- GEM started as an Intel-sponsored project in reaction to TTM's
- complexity. Its design philosophy is completely different: instead of
- providing a solution to every graphics memory-related problems, GEM
- identified common code between drivers and created a support library to
- share it. GEM has simpler initialization and execution requirements than
- TTM, but has no video RAM management capabilities and is thus limited to
- UMA devices.
- </para>
- <sect2>
- <title>The Translation Table Manager (TTM)</title>
- <para>
- TTM design background and information belongs here.
- </para>
- <sect3>
- <title>TTM initialization</title>
- <warning><para>This section is outdated.</para></warning>
- <para>
- Drivers wishing to support TTM must fill out a drm_bo_driver
- structure. The structure contains several fields with function
- pointers for initializing the TTM, allocating and freeing memory,
- waiting for command completion and fence synchronization, and memory