From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com (Paul Kocialkowski) Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:15:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v4 1/5] drm/blend: Add a generic alpha property In-Reply-To: <87vadd5mgf.fsf@anholt.net> References: <402e596049beb3429faf5981682d902c70325274.1520974361.git-series.maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> <87vadd5mgf.fsf@anholt.net> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On Fri, 2018-03-30 at 13:37 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > Maxime Ripard writes: > > > Some drivers duplicate the logic to create a property to store a > > per-plane > > alpha. > > > > This is especially useful if we ever want to support extra protocols > > for > > Wayland like: > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-August/034 > > 741.html > > > > Let's create a helper in order to move that to the core. > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c > > index 5a81e1b4c076..05eda2d57c77 100644 > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c > > @@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ > > * On top of this basic transformation additional properties can be > > exposed by > > * the driver: > > * > > + * alpha: > > + * Alpha is setup with drm_plane_create_alpha_property(). > > It controls the > > s/setup/set up/ > > > + * plane-wide opacity, from transparent (0) to opaque > > (0xffff). It can be > > + * combined with pixel alpha. > > + * The alpha value is represented as premultiplied alpha. > > I don't think this premultiplied comment makes any sense. What are > you saying it's premultiplied with? Maybe you mean that the output > pixels will have both their color and alpha channels multiplied by > this alpha? > I'd just drop it. I disagree here: since there are multiple ways to blend the pixel alpha value and the plane-wide alpha value, I think it's important to clearly specify which blending equation DRM expects here. Otherwise, the plane- wide alpha value just doesn't have a specified meaning and driver implementations can't figure whether the hardware uses the same equation or not and whether adaptation to this coefficient is needed. The equations for premultiplied alpha blending are at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing#Alpha_blending What do you think? > Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt > > We should probably do this property for vc4 at some point, too. -- Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and kernel engineering https://bootlin.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: