This series is an alternative to the link-bpc[1] series, which implemented an immutable property to determine the output's bit depth. The link bpc property wasn't very liked as it'd only be updated after an atomic commit went through. For a userspace that's trying to evaluate all available bit depths at a certain configuration, this was untenable.
After some discussion at Display Next Hackfest 2026, the general consensus seemed to be that a "min bpc" property would be a better way forward. By setting it and "max bpc" to the same value, userspace can probe for supported BPCs of a configuration with repeated atomic test commits, without actually doing a modeset. At the same time, it satisfies a common userspace use case: often times, userspace just wants to ensure that its deep color plane it's submitting is not being degraded by the driver to 8bpc for bandwidth reasons. By setting "min bpc" accordingly, userspace will get definitive feedback (an atomic commit failure) and can then make content-specific trade-off decisions that the kernel wouldn't be able to do, such as by lowering the framerate, or once "color format" is in, by subsampling the chroma. Alternatively, userspace can of course also accept that there's really nothing better it can do, and lower "min bpc" to accept the degradation. This series adds the property (including documentation) and implements it in the common HDMI state helpers (including new KUnit tests). Drivers that don't use the common HDMI state helpers will need to register the property and implement the (fairly simple) logic themselves. There is no draft userspace implementation this time around. Something that would adequately make the case for all the uses of "min bpc" would take a lot of effort to add to weston, and anything less than a full implementation will then be used as ammo to argue against the property. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/[email protected]/T/ Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli <[email protected]> --- Nicolas Frattaroli (2): drm/connector: Introduce "min bpc" connector property drm/connector: hdmi: Implement "min bpc" property drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_hdmi_state_helper.c | 10 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 4 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c | 4 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c | 81 ++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_hdmi_state_helper_test.c | 146 +++++++++++++++++++++ include/drm/drm_connector.h | 13 ++ 6 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 8372c3177e62bca48fdca142601d3d3804ff3129 change-id: 20260605-min-bpc-dbbf3b3a2521 Best regards, -- Nicolas Frattaroli <[email protected]>
