Weston extension to assure clients that the dmabuf buffer will be forwarded directly to the display controller. Signed-off-by: Marius Vlad <marius.vlad@collabora.com>dev
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | 
				
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<protocol name="weston_direct_display"> | 
				
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  <interface name="weston_direct_display_v1" version="1"> | 
				
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    <description summary="weston direct display"> | 
				
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      Weston extension to instruct the compositor to avoid any import | 
				
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      of the dmabuf created by 'linux-dmabuf' protocol other than the display | 
				
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      controller. | 
				
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      Compositors are already going to use direct scan-out as much as possible but | 
				
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      there's no assurance that while doing so, they won't first import the dmabuf | 
				
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      in to the GPU. This extension assures the client that the compositor will | 
				
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      never attempt to import in to the GPU and pass it directly to the display | 
				
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      controller. | 
				
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      Clients can make use of this extension to pass the dmabuf buffer to the | 
				
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      display controller, potentially increasing the performance and lowering the | 
				
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      bandwidth usage. | 
				
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      Lastly, clients can make use of this extension in tandem with content-protection | 
				
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      one thus avoiding any GPU interaction and providing a secure-content path. | 
				
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      Also, in some cases, the memory where dmabuf are allocated are in specially | 
				
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      crafted memory zone which would be seen as an illegal memory access when the | 
				
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      GPU will attempt to read it. | 
				
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      WARNING: This interface by design might break screenshoting functionality | 
				
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      as compositing might be involved while doing that. Also, do note, that in | 
				
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      case the dmabufer provided can't be imported by KMS, the client connection | 
				
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      will be terminated. | 
				
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      WARNING: This extension requires 'linux-dmabuf' protocol and | 
				
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      'zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1' be already created by 'zwp_linux_buffer_v1'. | 
				
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    </description> | 
				
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    <request name="enable"> | 
				
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      <description summary="forward buffer to display controller"> | 
				
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      This request tells the compositor not to import the dmabuf to the GPU | 
				
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      in order to bypass it entirely, such that the buffer will be directly | 
				
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      scanned-out by the display controller. If HW is not capable/or there | 
				
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      aren't any available resources to directly scan-out the buffer, a | 
				
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      placeholder should be installed in-place by the compositor. The | 
				
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      compositor may perform checks on the dmabuf and refuse to create a | 
				
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      wl_buffer if the dmabuf seems unusable for being used directly. | 
				
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      Assumes that 'zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1' was already created | 
				
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      by 'zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1_create_params'. | 
				
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      </description> | 
				
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      <arg name="dmabuf" type="object" interface="zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1" | 
				
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           summary="enable direct-display for dmabuf buffer"/> | 
				
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    </request> | 
				
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    <request name="destroy" type="destructor"> | 
				
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      <description summary="destroy factory object"> | 
				
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        Destroys the factory object, but does not affect any other objects. | 
				
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      </description> | 
				
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    </request> | 
				
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  </interface> | 
				
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</protocol> | 
				
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