Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] drm/lsdc: add drm driver for loongson display controller

From: Sui Jingfeng
Date: Wed Feb 16 2022 - 09:13:19 EST



On 2022/2/16 21:46, Daniel Stone wrote:
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 15:41, Sui Jingfeng <15330273260@xxxxxx> wrote:
On 2022/2/9 16:43, Maxime Ripard wrote:
More fundamentally (and this extends to the CMA, caching and VRAM stuff
you explained above), why can't the driver pick the right decision all
the time and why would that be under the user control?
The right decision for ls7a1000 is to use VRAM based helper, But sometimes
we need CMA helper based solution. Because: The PRIME support is lost, use
lsdc with etnaviv is not possible any more.

Buffer sharing with etnaviv is no longer possible, loongson display controllers
are simple which require scanout buffers to be physically contiguous.
Other systems have this limitation, and Mesa's 'kmsro' concept makes
this work transparently, as long as your driver can export dmabufs
when running in 'VRAM' mode.

Cheers,
Daniel

When using vram helper based driver, the framebuffer  is locate at video ram. the backing memory fb is manage by TTM.

while bo of etnaviv is locate at system ram. Currently i can't figure out how does the buffer going to be shared.