drm/todo: Add entry about implementing buffer age for damage tracking
authorJavier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:13:04 +0000 (23:13 +0100)
committerJavier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:15:30 +0000 (15:15 +0100)
commit6c18005d8fabe8a6835fc0f96102d4269199e05b
tree6c206a8112010750f2ced7ff73b01d96cc3f479d
parent017bdf8fa20175b9cccbc746122256432a599845
drm/todo: Add entry about implementing buffer age for damage tracking

Currently, only damage tracking for frame damage is supported. If a driver
needs to do buffer damage (e.g: the framebuffer attached to plane's state
has changed since the last page-flip), the damage helpers just fallback to
a full plane update.

Add en entry in the TODO about implementing buffer age or any other damage
accumulation algorithm for buffer damage handling.

Suggested-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Sima Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231123221315.3579454-6-javierm@redhat.com
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst