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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2017-09-11 09:51:51 +0300
committerSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2017-09-11 19:41:35 +0300
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drm/doc: Update todo.rst
We're using this for outreachy, unfortunately someone already tried to look at a task that was done already :-( Update them all. Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170911065151.22672-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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@@ -75,17 +75,6 @@ helpers.
Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers
-Implement deferred fbdev setup in the helper
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-
-Many (especially embedded drivers) want to delay fbdev setup until there's a
-real screen plugged in. This is to avoid the dreaded fallback to the low-res
-fbdev default. Many drivers have a hacked-up (and often broken) version of this,
-better to do it once in the shared helpers. Thierry has a patch series, but that
-one needs to be rebased and final polish applied.
-
-Contact: Thierry Reding, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers
-
Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers
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@@ -138,6 +127,8 @@ interfaces to fix these issues:
the acquire context explicitly on stack and then also pass it down into
drivers explicitly so that the legacy-on-atomic functions can use them.
+ Except for some driver code this is done.
+
* A bunch of the vtable hooks are now in the wrong place: DRM has a split
between core vfunc tables (named ``drm_foo_funcs``), which are used to
implement the userspace ABI. And then there's the optional hooks for the
@@ -151,6 +142,8 @@ interfaces to fix these issues:
connector at runtime. That's almost all of them, and would allow us to get
rid of a lot of ``best_encoder`` boilerplate in drivers.
+ This was almost done, but new drivers added a few more cases again.
+
Contact: Daniel Vetter
Get rid of dev->struct_mutex from GEM drivers