To support shared-CRTC clone mode, the chosen CRTC needs to support
driving all the attached connectors. Replace the old algorithm with a
new one that takes into account all associated connectors.
Ideally it should use possible_clones mask to check which encoders (and
therefore connectors) actually can be in a cloned set. However, the DRM
documentation says about possible_clones and possible_crtcs masks both:
"In reality almost every driver gets this wrong."
- https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/gpu/drm-kms.html#c.drm_encoder
Looking at a target device and its kernel where clone mode is desired,
possible_clones is indeed self-conflicting and would not allow cloning
at all. Therefore the implemented algorithm replaces the checking of
possible_clones with luck. It even goes out of its way to find any CRTC
for a configuration, even if not advertised by the kernel as not
supported.
Libweston would need infrastructure to allow trial-and-error CRTC
allocation: rather than picking one CRTC in advance and do or die, it
should try all available CRTCs one by one. Unfortunately that is not yet
possible, so this patch implements what it can. It is also the DRM
upstream opinion that trial-and-error with ATOMIC_TEST would be the way
to go.
Unlike the old algorithm, the new algorithm prefers routings that were
in place when Weston started instead of when enabling an output. When
you never temporarily disable an output, this makes no difference.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Acked-by: Derek Foreman <derekf@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Pekka Paalanen