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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-02 16:16:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-14 15:13:27 +0100 |
| commit | b2b82c26c7c1702cacde241cf63137eddd6524bf (patch) | |
| tree | 2e7f21bfa7ce74a1ce64861660cfb3aaeb81d157 /Documentation/gpu | |
| parent | 1ea3576874790ba81ab00c3a0f1a3fc23e687062 (diff) | |
drm/doc: diagram for mode objects and properties
Resulted in confusion a few times in the past.
v2: Spelling fix (Eric).
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170302151638.1882-5-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst index b11c537c73f4..1c42448c7aae 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst @@ -161,6 +161,28 @@ KMS Core Structures and Functions Modeset Base Object Abstraction =============================== +.. kernel-render:: DOT + :alt: Mode Objects and Properties + :caption: Mode Objects and Properties + + digraph { + node [shape=box] + + "drm_property A" -> "drm_mode_object A" + "drm_property A" -> "drm_mode_object B" + "drm_property B" -> "drm_mode_object A" + } + +The base structure for all KMS objects is :c:type:`struct drm_mode_object +<drm_mode_object>`. One of the base services it provides is tracking properties, +which are especially important for the atomic IOCTL (see `Atomic Mode +Setting`_). The somewhat surprising part here is that properties are not +directly instantiated on each object, but free-standing mode objects themselves, +represented by :c:type:`struct drm_property <drm_property>`, which only specify +the type and value range of a property. Any given property can be attached +multiple times to different objects using :c:func:`drm_object_attach_property() +<drm_object_attach_property>`. + .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_mode_object.h :internal: |