Hi Thomas,

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
DRM may support multiple in-kernel clients that run as soon as a DRM
driver has been registered. To select the client(s) in a single place,
introduce drm_client_setup().

Drivers that call the new helper automatically instantiate the kernel's
configured default clients. Only fbdev emulation is currently supported.
Later versions can add support for DRM-based logging, a boot logo or even
a console.

Some drivers handle the color mode for clients internally. Provide the
helper drm_client_setup_with_color_mode() for them.

v3:
- fix build error
v2:
- add drm_client_setup_with_fourcc() (Laurent)
- push default-format handling into actual clients

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+rene...@ideasonboard.com>

Thanks for your patch!

--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_setup.c

+/**
+ * drm_client_setup_with_fourcc() - Setup in-kernel DRM clients for color mode
+ * @dev: DRM device
+ * @fourcc: Preferred pixel format as 4CC code for the device
+ *
+ * This function sets up the in-kernel DRM clients. It is equivalent
+ * to drm_client_setup(), but expects a 4CC code as second argument.
+ *
+ * Do not use this function in new drivers. Prefer drm_client_setup() with a
+ * format of NULL.

Why? To me this looks like the right function to call on hardware
that does not support ARGB8888 natively.

BTW, once this series is applied, I plan to check again how to wire up
native fbcon support for monochrome (DRM_FORMAT_R1) and grayscale
(DRM_FORMAT_R8), as used by the Solomon driver.

+ */
+void drm_client_setup_with_fourcc(struct drm_device *dev, u32 fourcc)
+{
+       drm_client_setup(dev, drm_format_info(fourcc));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_client_setup_with_fourcc);
+
+/**
+ * drm_client_setup_with_color_mode() - Setup in-kernel DRM clients for color 
mode
+ * @dev: DRM device
+ * @color_mode: Preferred color mode for the device
+ *
+ * This function sets up the in-kernel DRM clients. It is equivalent
+ * to drm_client_setup(), but expects a color mode as second argument.
+ *
+ * Do not use this function in new drivers. Prefer drm_client_setup() with a


Yeah, this is definitely not to be used in new drivers, as color_mode is
ambiguous.

+ * format of NULL.

or drm_client_setup_with_fourcc().

+ */
+void drm_client_setup_with_color_mode(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned int 
color_mode)
+{
+       u32 fourcc = drm_driver_color_mode_format(dev, color_mode);
+
+       drm_client_setup_with_fourcc(dev, fourcc);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_client_setup_with_color_mode);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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