drm: Try to document legacy DPMS uapi a bit better
Due to inconsistency of how various legacy drivers implemented DPMS the DPMS uabi has a lot of quirks. Atomic standardizes this, but drivers using the DPMS support can't rely on that since legacy drivers still exist. Laurent asked for this. v2: Improve commit message and explain that DPMS doesn't really exist for the atomic ioctl (it's "ACTIVE" on the CRTC instead). Text polish from Eric's review. Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170920225957.16278-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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* callback. For atomic drivers the remapping to the "ACTIVE" property is
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* callback. For atomic drivers the remapping to the "ACTIVE" property is
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* implemented in the DRM core. This is the only standard connector
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* implemented in the DRM core. This is the only standard connector
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* property that userspace can change.
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* property that userspace can change.
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* Note that this property cannot be set through the MODE_ATOMIC ioctl,
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* userspace must use "ACTIVE" on the CRTC instead.
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* WARNING:
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* For userspace also running on legacy drivers the "DPMS" semantics are a
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* lot more complicated. First, userspace cannot rely on the "DPMS" value
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* returned by the GETCONNECTOR actually reflecting reality, because many
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* drivers fail to update it. For atomic drivers this is taken care of in
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* drm_atomic_helper_update_legacy_modeset_state().
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* The second issue is that the DPMS state is only well-defined when the
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* connector is connected to a CRTC. In atomic the DRM core enforces that
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* "ACTIVE" is off in such a case, no such checks exists for "DPMS".
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* Finally, when enabling an output using the legacy SETCONFIG ioctl then
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* "DPMS" is forced to ON. But see above, that might not be reflected in
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* the software value on legacy drivers.
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* Summarizing: Only set "DPMS" when the connector is known to be enabled,
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* assume that a successful SETCONFIG call also sets "DPMS" to on, and
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* never read back the value of "DPMS" because it can be incorrect.
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* PATH:
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* PATH:
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* Connector path property to identify how this sink is physically
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* Connector path property to identify how this sink is physically
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* connected. Used by DP MST. This should be set by calling
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* connected. Used by DP MST. This should be set by calling
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