1.. _todo: 2 3========= 4TODO list 5========= 6 7This section contains a list of smaller janitorial tasks in the kernel DRM 8graphics subsystem useful as newbie projects. Or for slow rainy days. 9 10Difficulty 11---------- 12 13To make it easier task are categorized into different levels: 14 15Starter: Good tasks to get started with the DRM subsystem. 16 17Intermediate: Tasks which need some experience with working in the DRM 18subsystem, or some specific GPU/display graphics knowledge. For debugging issue 19it's good to have the relevant hardware (or a virtual driver set up) available 20for testing. 21 22Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem 23and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and 24testing. 25 26Expert: Only attempt these if you've successfully completed some tricky 27refactorings already and are an expert in the specific area 28 29Subsystem-wide refactorings 30=========================== 31 32Remove custom dumb_map_offset implementations 33--------------------------------------------- 34 35All GEM based drivers should be using drm_gem_create_mmap_offset() instead. 36Audit each individual driver, make sure it'll work with the generic 37implementation (there's lots of outdated locking leftovers in various 38implementations), and then remove it. 39 40Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers 41 42Level: Intermediate 43 44Convert existing KMS drivers to atomic modesetting 45-------------------------------------------------- 46 473.19 has the atomic modeset interfaces and helpers, so drivers can now be 48converted over. Modern compositors like Wayland or Surfaceflinger on Android 49really want an atomic modeset interface, so this is all about the bright 50future. 51 52There is a conversion guide for atomic and all you need is a GPU for a 53non-converted driver (again virtual HW drivers for KVM are still all 54suitable). 55 56As part of this drivers also need to convert to universal plane (which means 57exposing primary & cursor as proper plane objects). But that's much easier to 58do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks. 59 60Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers 61 62Level: Advanced 63 64Clean up the clipped coordination confusion around planes 65--------------------------------------------------------- 66 67We have a helper to get this right with drm_plane_helper_check_update(), but 68it's not consistently used. This should be fixed, preferrably in the atomic 69helpers (and drivers then moved over to clipped coordinates). Probably the 70helper should also be moved from drm_plane_helper.c to the atomic helpers, to 71avoid confusion - the other helpers in that file are all deprecated legacy 72helpers. 73 74Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers 75 76Level: Advanced 77 78Improve plane atomic_check helpers 79---------------------------------- 80 81Aside from the clipped coordinates right above there's a few suboptimal things 82with the current helpers: 83 84- drm_plane_helper_funcs->atomic_check gets called for enabled or disabled 85 planes. At best this seems to confuse drivers, worst it means they blow up 86 when the plane is disabled without the CRTC. The only special handling is 87 resetting values in the plane state structures, which instead should be moved 88 into the drm_plane_funcs->atomic_duplicate_state functions. 89 90- Once that's done, helpers could stop calling ->atomic_check for disabled 91 planes. 92 93- Then we could go through all the drivers and remove the more-or-less confused 94 checks for plane_state->fb and plane_state->crtc. 95 96Contact: Daniel Vetter 97 98Level: Advanced 99 100Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers 101---------------------------------------------------- 102 103For the first year the atomic modeset helpers didn't support asynchronous / 104nonblocking commits, and every driver had to hand-roll them. This is fixed 105now, but there's still a pile of existing drivers that easily could be 106converted over to the new infrastructure. 107 108One issue with the helpers is that they require that drivers handle completion 109events for atomic commits correctly. But fixing these bugs is good anyway. 110 111Somewhat related is the legacy_cursor_update hack, which should be replaced with 112the new atomic_async_check/commit functionality in the helpers in drivers that 113still look at that flag. 114 115Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers 116 117Level: Advanced 118 119Fallout from atomic KMS 120----------------------- 121 122``drm_atomic_helper.c`` provides a batch of functions which implement legacy 123IOCTLs on top of the new atomic driver interface. Which is really nice for 124gradual conversion of drivers, but unfortunately the semantic mismatches are 125a bit too severe. So there's some follow-up work to adjust the function 126interfaces to fix these issues: 127 128* atomic needs the lock acquire context. At the moment that's passed around 129 implicitly with some horrible hacks, and it's also allocate with 130 ``GFP_NOFAIL`` behind the scenes. All legacy paths need to start allocating 131 the acquire context explicitly on stack and then also pass it down into 132 drivers explicitly so that the legacy-on-atomic functions can use them. 133 134 Except for some driver code this is done. This task should be finished by 135 adding WARN_ON(!drm_drv_uses_atomic_modeset) in drm_modeset_lock_all(). 136 137* A bunch of the vtable hooks are now in the wrong place: DRM has a split 138 between core vfunc tables (named ``drm_foo_funcs``), which are used to 139 implement the userspace ABI. And then there's the optional hooks for the 140 helper libraries (name ``drm_foo_helper_funcs``), which are purely for 141 internal use. Some of these hooks should be move from ``_funcs`` to 142 ``_helper_funcs`` since they are not part of the core ABI. There's a 143 ``FIXME`` comment in the kerneldoc for each such case in ``drm_crtc.h``. 144 145Contact: Daniel Vetter 146 147Level: Intermediate 148 149Get rid of dev->struct_mutex from GEM drivers 150--------------------------------------------- 151 152``dev->struct_mutex`` is the Big DRM Lock from legacy days and infested 153everything. Nowadays in modern drivers the only bit where it's mandatory is 154serializing GEM buffer object destruction. Which unfortunately means drivers 155have to keep track of that lock and either call ``unreference`` or 156``unreference_locked`` depending upon context. 157 158Core GEM doesn't have a need for ``struct_mutex`` any more since kernel 4.8, 159and there's a GEM object ``free`` callback for any drivers which are 160entirely ``struct_mutex`` free. 161 162For drivers that need ``struct_mutex`` it should be replaced with a driver- 163private lock. The tricky part is the BO free functions, since those can't 164reliably take that lock any more. Instead state needs to be protected with 165suitable subordinate locks or some cleanup work pushed to a worker thread. For 166performance-critical drivers it might also be better to go with a more 167fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only 168the ``msm`` and `i915` drivers use ``struct_mutex``. 169 170Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers 171 172Level: Advanced 173 174Move Buffer Object Locking to dma_resv_lock() 175--------------------------------------------- 176 177Many drivers have their own per-object locking scheme, usually using 178mutex_lock(). This causes all kinds of trouble for buffer sharing, since 179depending which driver is the exporter and importer, the locking hierarchy is 180reversed. 181 182To solve this we need one standard per-object locking mechanism, which is 183dma_resv_lock(). This lock needs to be called as the outermost lock, with all 184other driver specific per-object locks removed. The problem is tha rolling out 185the actual change to the locking contract is a flag day, due to struct dma_buf 186buffer sharing. 187 188Level: Expert 189 190Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater 191------------------------------------------------------------ 192 193For drivers which could have multiple instances, it is necessary to 194differentiate between which is which in the logs. Since DRM_INFO/WARN/ERROR 195don't do this, drivers used dev_info/warn/err to make this differentiation. We 196now have drm_* variants of the drm print functions, so we can start to convert 197those drivers back to using drm-formatted specific log messages. 198 199Before you start this conversion please contact the relevant maintainers to make 200sure your work will be merged - not everyone agrees that the DRM dmesg macros 201are better. 202 203Contact: Sean Paul, Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert 204 205Level: Starter 206 207Convert drivers to use simple modeset suspend/resume 208---------------------------------------------------- 209 210Most drivers (except i915 and nouveau) that use 211drm_atomic_helper_suspend/resume() can probably be converted to use 212drm_mode_config_helper_suspend/resume(). Also there's still open-coded version 213of the atomic suspend/resume code in older atomic modeset drivers. 214 215Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert 216 217Level: Intermediate 218 219Convert drivers to use drm_fbdev_generic_setup() 220------------------------------------------------ 221 222Most drivers can use drm_fbdev_generic_setup(). Driver have to implement 223atomic modesetting and GEM vmap support. Historically, generic fbdev emulation 224expected the framebuffer in system memory or system-like memory. By employing 225struct iosys_map, drivers with frambuffers in I/O memory can be supported 226as well. 227 228Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert 229 230Level: Intermediate 231 232Reimplement functions in drm_fbdev_fb_ops without fbdev 233------------------------------------------------------- 234 235A number of callback functions in drm_fbdev_fb_ops could benefit from 236being rewritten without dependencies on the fbdev module. Some of the 237helpers could further benefit from using struct iosys_map instead of 238raw pointers. 239 240Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Daniel Vetter 241 242Level: Advanced 243 244 245drm_framebuffer_funcs and drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create cleanup 246----------------------------------------------------------------- 247 248A lot more drivers could be switched over to the drm_gem_framebuffer helpers. 249Various hold-ups: 250 251- Need to switch over to the generic dirty tracking code using 252 drm_atomic_helper_dirtyfb first (e.g. qxl). 253 254- Need to switch to drm_fbdev_generic_setup(), otherwise a lot of the custom fb 255 setup code can't be deleted. 256 257- Many drivers wrap drm_gem_fb_create() only to check for valid formats. For 258 atomic drivers we could check for valid formats by calling 259 drm_plane_check_pixel_format() against all planes, and pass if any plane 260 supports the format. For non-atomic that's not possible since like the format 261 list for the primary plane is fake and we'd therefor reject valid formats. 262 263- Many drivers subclass drm_framebuffer, we'd need a embedding compatible 264 version of the varios drm_gem_fb_create functions. Maybe called 265 drm_gem_fb_create/_with_dirty/_with_funcs as needed. 266 267Contact: Daniel Vetter 268 269Level: Intermediate 270 271Generic fbdev defio support 272--------------------------- 273 274The defio support code in the fbdev core has some very specific requirements, 275which means drivers need to have a special framebuffer for fbdev. The main 276issue is that it uses some fields in struct page itself, which breaks shmem 277gem objects (and other things). To support defio, affected drivers require 278the use of a shadow buffer, which may add CPU and memory overhead. 279 280Possible solution would be to write our own defio mmap code in the drm fbdev 281emulation. It would need to fully wrap the existing mmap ops, forwarding 282everything after it has done the write-protect/mkwrite trickery: 283 284- In the drm_fbdev_fb_mmap helper, if we need defio, change the 285 default page prots to write-protected with something like this:: 286 287 vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_wrprotect(vma->vm_page_prot); 288 289- Set the mkwrite and fsync callbacks with similar implementions to the core 290 fbdev defio stuff. These should all work on plain ptes, they don't actually 291 require a struct page. uff. These should all work on plain ptes, they don't 292 actually require a struct page. 293 294- Track the dirty pages in a separate structure (bitfield with one bit per page 295 should work) to avoid clobbering struct page. 296 297Might be good to also have some igt testcases for this. 298 299Contact: Daniel Vetter, Noralf Tronnes 300 301Level: Advanced 302 303idr_init_base() 304--------------- 305 306DRM core&drivers uses a lot of idr (integer lookup directories) for mapping 307userspace IDs to internal objects, and in most places ID=0 means NULL and hence 308is never used. Switching to idr_init_base() for these would make the idr more 309efficient. 310 311Contact: Daniel Vetter 312 313Level: Starter 314 315struct drm_gem_object_funcs 316--------------------------- 317 318GEM objects can now have a function table instead of having the callbacks on the 319DRM driver struct. This is now the preferred way. Callbacks in drivers have been 320converted, except for struct drm_driver.gem_prime_mmap. 321 322Level: Intermediate 323 324Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers 325--------------------------------- 326 327CMA (standing for contiguous memory allocator) is really a bit an accident of 328what these were used for first, a much better name would be DMA helpers. In the 329text these should even be called coherent DMA memory helpers (so maybe CDM, but 330no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent. 331 332Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter 333 334Level: Intermediate (mostly because it is a huge tasks without good partial 335milestones, not technically itself that challenging) 336 337connector register/unregister fixes 338----------------------------------- 339 340- For most connectors it's a no-op to call drm_connector_register/unregister 341 directly from driver code, drm_dev_register/unregister take care of this 342 already. We can remove all of them. 343 344- For dp drivers it's a bit more a mess, since we need the connector to be 345 registered when calling drm_dp_aux_register. Fix this by instead calling 346 drm_dp_aux_init, and moving the actual registering into a late_register 347 callback as recommended in the kerneldoc. 348 349Level: Intermediate 350 351Remove load/unload callbacks from all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers 352--------------------------------------------------------------- 353 354The load/unload callbacks in struct &drm_driver are very much midlayers, plus 355for historical reasons they get the ordering wrong (and we can't fix that) 356between setting up the &drm_driver structure and calling drm_dev_register(). 357 358- Rework drivers to no longer use the load/unload callbacks, directly coding the 359 load/unload sequence into the driver's probe function. 360 361- Once all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers are converted, disallow the load/unload 362 callbacks for all modern drivers. 363 364Contact: Daniel Vetter 365 366Level: Intermediate 367 368Replace drm_detect_hdmi_monitor() with drm_display_info.is_hdmi 369--------------------------------------------------------------- 370 371Once EDID is parsed, the monitor HDMI support information is available through 372drm_display_info.is_hdmi. Many drivers still call drm_detect_hdmi_monitor() to 373retrieve the same information, which is less efficient. 374 375Audit each individual driver calling drm_detect_hdmi_monitor() and switch to 376drm_display_info.is_hdmi if applicable. 377 378Contact: Laurent Pinchart, respective driver maintainers 379 380Level: Intermediate 381 382Consolidate custom driver modeset properties 383-------------------------------------------- 384 385Before atomic modeset took place, many drivers where creating their own 386properties. Among other things, atomic brought the requirement that custom, 387driver specific properties should not be used. 388 389For this task, we aim to introduce core helpers or reuse the existing ones 390if available: 391 392A quick, unconfirmed, examples list. 393 394Introduce core helpers: 395- audio (amdgpu, intel, gma500, radeon) 396- brightness, contrast, etc (armada, nouveau) - overlay only (?) 397- broadcast rgb (gma500, intel) 398- colorkey (armada, nouveau, rcar) - overlay only (?) 399- dither (amdgpu, nouveau, radeon) - varies across drivers 400- underscan family (amdgpu, radeon, nouveau) 401 402Already in core: 403- colorspace (sti) 404- tv format names, enhancements (gma500, intel) 405- tv overscan, margins, etc. (gma500, intel) 406- zorder (omapdrm) - same as zpos (?) 407 408 409Contact: Emil Velikov, respective driver maintainers 410 411Level: Intermediate 412 413Use struct iosys_map throughout codebase 414---------------------------------------- 415 416Pointers to shared device memory are stored in struct iosys_map. Each 417instance knows whether it refers to system or I/O memory. Most of the DRM-wide 418interface have been converted to use struct iosys_map, but implementations 419often still use raw pointers. 420 421The task is to use struct iosys_map where it makes sense. 422 423* Memory managers should use struct iosys_map for dma-buf-imported buffers. 424* TTM might benefit from using struct iosys_map internally. 425* Framebuffer copying and blitting helpers should operate on struct iosys_map. 426 427Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Christian König, Daniel Vetter 428 429Level: Intermediate 430 431Review all drivers for setting struct drm_mode_config.{max_width,max_height} correctly 432-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 433 434The values in struct drm_mode_config.{max_width,max_height} describe the 435maximum supported framebuffer size. It's the virtual screen size, but many 436drivers treat it like limitations of the physical resolution. 437 438The maximum width depends on the hardware's maximum scanline pitch. The 439maximum height depends on the amount of addressable video memory. Review all 440drivers to initialize the fields to the correct values. 441 442Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> 443 444Level: Intermediate 445 446Request memory regions in all drivers 447------------------------------------- 448 449Go through all drivers and add code to request the memory regions that the 450driver uses. This requires adding calls to request_mem_region(), 451pci_request_region() or similar functions. Use helpers for managed cleanup 452where possible. 453 454Drivers are pretty bad at doing this and there used to be conflicts among 455DRM and fbdev drivers. Still, it's the correct thing to do. 456 457Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> 458 459Level: Starter 460 461 462Core refactorings 463================= 464 465Make panic handling work 466------------------------ 467 468This is a really varied tasks with lots of little bits and pieces: 469 470* The panic path can't be tested currently, leading to constant breaking. The 471 main issue here is that panics can be triggered from hardirq contexts and 472 hence all panic related callback can run in hardirq context. It would be 473 awesome if we could test at least the fbdev helper code and driver code by 474 e.g. trigger calls through drm debugfs files. hardirq context could be 475 achieved by using an IPI to the local processor. 476 477* There's a massive confusion of different panic handlers. DRM fbdev emulation 478 helpers have one, but on top of that the fbcon code itself also has one. We 479 need to make sure that they stop fighting over each another. 480 481* ``drm_can_sleep()`` is a mess. It hides real bugs in normal operations and 482 isn't a full solution for panic paths. We need to make sure that it only 483 returns true if there's a panic going on for real, and fix up all the 484 fallout. 485 486* The panic handler must never sleep, which also means it can't ever 487 ``mutex_lock()``. Also it can't grab any other lock unconditionally, not 488 even spinlocks (because NMI and hardirq can panic too). We need to either 489 make sure to not call such paths, or trylock everything. Really tricky. 490 491* For the above locking troubles reasons it's pretty much impossible to 492 attempt a synchronous modeset from panic handlers. The only thing we could 493 try to achive is an atomic ``set_base`` of the primary plane, and hope that 494 it shows up. Everything else probably needs to be delayed to some worker or 495 something else which happens later on. Otherwise it just kills the box 496 harder, prevent the panic from going out on e.g. netconsole. 497 498* There's also proposal for a simplied DRM console instead of the full-blown 499 fbcon and DRM fbdev emulation. Any kind of panic handling tricks should 500 obviously work for both console, in case we ever get kmslog merged. 501 502Contact: Daniel Vetter 503 504Level: Advanced 505 506Clean up the debugfs support 507---------------------------- 508 509There's a bunch of issues with it: 510 511- The drm_info_list ->show() function doesn't even bother to cast to the drm 512 structure for you. This is lazy. 513 514- We probably want to have some support for debugfs files on crtc/connectors and 515 maybe other kms objects directly in core. There's even drm_print support in 516 the funcs for these objects to dump kms state, so it's all there. And then the 517 ->show() functions should obviously give you a pointer to the right object. 518 519- The drm_info_list stuff is centered on drm_minor instead of drm_device. For 520 anything we want to print drm_device (or maybe drm_file) is the right thing. 521 522- The drm_driver->debugfs_init hooks we have is just an artifact of the old 523 midlayered load sequence. DRM debugfs should work more like sysfs, where you 524 can create properties/files for an object anytime you want, and the core 525 takes care of publishing/unpuplishing all the files at register/unregister 526 time. Drivers shouldn't need to worry about these technicalities, and fixing 527 this (together with the drm_minor->drm_device move) would allow us to remove 528 debugfs_init. 529 530Previous RFC that hasn't landed yet: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200513114130.28641-2-wambui.karugax@gmail.com/ 531 532Contact: Daniel Vetter 533 534Level: Intermediate 535 536Object lifetime fixes 537--------------------- 538 539There's two related issues here 540 541- Cleanup up the various ->destroy callbacks, which often are all the same 542 simple code. 543 544- Lots of drivers erroneously allocate DRM modeset objects using devm_kzalloc, 545 which results in use-after free issues on driver unload. This can be serious 546 trouble even for drivers for hardware integrated on the SoC due to 547 EPROBE_DEFERRED backoff. 548 549Both these problems can be solved by switching over to drmm_kzalloc(), and the 550various convenience wrappers provided, e.g. drmm_crtc_alloc_with_planes(), 551drmm_universal_plane_alloc(), ... and so on. 552 553Contact: Daniel Vetter 554 555Level: Intermediate 556 557Remove automatic page mapping from dma-buf importing 558---------------------------------------------------- 559 560When importing dma-bufs, the dma-buf and PRIME frameworks automatically map 561imported pages into the importer's DMA area. drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle() and 562drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd() require that importers call dma_buf_attach() 563even if they never do actual device DMA, but only CPU access through 564dma_buf_vmap(). This is a problem for USB devices, which do not support DMA 565operations. 566 567To fix the issue, automatic page mappings should be removed from the 568buffer-sharing code. Fixing this is a bit more involved, since the import/export 569cache is also tied to &drm_gem_object.import_attach. Meanwhile we paper over 570this problem for USB devices by fishing out the USB host controller device, as 571long as that supports DMA. Otherwise importing can still needlessly fail. 572 573Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Daniel Vetter 574 575Level: Advanced 576 577 578Better Testing 579============== 580 581Enable trinity for DRM 582---------------------- 583 584And fix up the fallout. Should be really interesting ... 585 586Level: Advanced 587 588Make KMS tests in i-g-t generic 589------------------------------- 590 591The i915 driver team maintains an extensive testsuite for the i915 DRM driver, 592including tons of testcases for corner-cases in the modesetting API. It would 593be awesome if those tests (at least the ones not relying on Intel-specific GEM 594features) could be made to run on any KMS driver. 595 596Basic work to run i-g-t tests on non-i915 is done, what's now missing is mass- 597converting things over. For modeset tests we also first need a bit of 598infrastructure to use dumb buffers for untiled buffers, to be able to run all 599the non-i915 specific modeset tests. 600 601Level: Advanced 602 603Extend virtual test driver (VKMS) 604--------------------------------- 605 606See the documentation of :ref:`VKMS <vkms>` for more details. This is an ideal 607internship task, since it only requires a virtual machine and can be sized to 608fit the available time. 609 610Level: See details 611 612Backlight Refactoring 613--------------------- 614 615Backlight drivers have a triple enable/disable state, which is a bit overkill. 616Plan to fix this: 617 6181. Roll out backlight_enable() and backlight_disable() helpers everywhere. This 619 has started already. 6202. In all, only look at one of the three status bits set by the above helpers. 6213. Remove the other two status bits. 622 623Contact: Daniel Vetter 624 625Level: Intermediate 626 627Driver Specific 628=============== 629 630AMD DC Display Driver 631--------------------- 632 633AMD DC is the display driver for AMD devices starting with Vega. There has been 634a bunch of progress cleaning it up but there's still plenty of work to be done. 635 636See drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/TODO for tasks. 637 638Contact: Harry Wentland, Alex Deucher 639 640vmwgfx: Replace hashtable with Linux' implementation 641---------------------------------------------------- 642 643The vmwgfx driver uses its own hashtable implementation. Replace the 644code with Linux' implementation and update the callers. It's mostly a 645refactoring task, but the interfaces are different. 646 647Contact: Zack Rusin, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> 648 649Level: Intermediate 650 651Bootsplash 652========== 653 654There is support in place now for writing internal DRM clients making it 655possible to pick up the bootsplash work that was rejected because it was written 656for fbdev. 657 658- [v6,8/8] drm/client: Hack: Add bootsplash example 659 https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/306579/ 660 661- [RFC PATCH v2 00/13] Kernel based bootsplash 662 https://lore.kernel.org/r/20171213194755.3409-1-mstaudt@suse.de 663 664Contact: Sam Ravnborg 665 666Level: Advanced 667 668Outside DRM 669=========== 670 671Convert fbdev drivers to DRM 672---------------------------- 673 674There are plenty of fbdev drivers for older hardware. Some hardware has 675become obsolete, but some still provides good(-enough) framebuffers. The 676drivers that are still useful should be converted to DRM and afterwards 677removed from fbdev. 678 679Very simple fbdev drivers can best be converted by starting with a new 680DRM driver. Simple KMS helpers and SHMEM should be able to handle any 681existing hardware. The new driver's call-back functions are filled from 682existing fbdev code. 683 684More complex fbdev drivers can be refactored step-by-step into a DRM 685driver with the help of the DRM fbconv helpers. [1] These helpers provide 686the transition layer between the DRM core infrastructure and the fbdev 687driver interface. Create a new DRM driver on top of the fbconv helpers, 688copy over the fbdev driver, and hook it up to the DRM code. Examples for 689several fbdev drivers are available at [1] and a tutorial of this process 690available at [2]. The result is a primitive DRM driver that can run X11 691and Weston. 692 693 - [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/tree/fbconv 694 - [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/blob/fbconv/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbconv_helper.c 695 696Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> 697 698Level: Advanced 699