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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37implementation (there's lots of outdated locking leftovers in various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 dma_buf_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 dma_buf_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
271Clean up mmap forwarding
272------------------------
273
274A lot of drivers forward gem mmap calls to dma-buf mmap for imported buffers.
275And also a lot of them forward dma-buf mmap to the gem mmap implementations.
276There's drm_gem_prime_mmap() for this now, but still needs to be rolled out.
277
278Contact: Daniel Vetter
279
280Level: Intermediate
281
282Generic fbdev defio support
283---------------------------
284
285The defio support code in the fbdev core has some very specific requirements,
286which means drivers need to have a special framebuffer for fbdev. The main
287issue is that it uses some fields in struct page itself, which breaks shmem
288gem objects (and other things). To support defio, affected drivers require
289the use of a shadow buffer, which may add CPU and memory overhead.
290
291Possible solution would be to write our own defio mmap code in the drm fbdev
292emulation. It would need to fully wrap the existing mmap ops, forwarding
293everything after it has done the write-protect/mkwrite trickery:
294
295- In the drm_fbdev_fb_mmap helper, if we need defio, change the
296  default page prots to write-protected with something like this::
297
298      vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_wrprotect(vma->vm_page_prot);
299
300- Set the mkwrite and fsync callbacks with similar implementions to the core
301  fbdev defio stuff. These should all work on plain ptes, they don't actually
302  require a struct page.  uff. These should all work on plain ptes, they don't
303  actually require a struct page.
304
305- Track the dirty pages in a separate structure (bitfield with one bit per page
306  should work) to avoid clobbering struct page.
307
308Might be good to also have some igt testcases for this.
309
310Contact: Daniel Vetter, Noralf Tronnes
311
312Level: Advanced
313
314Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration
315--------------------------------------------
316
317Scroll acceleration is disabled in fbcon by hard-wiring p->scrollmode =
318SCROLL_REDRAW. There's a ton of code this will allow us to remove:
319
320- lots of code in fbcon.c
321
322- a bunch of the hooks in fbcon_ops, maybe the remaining hooks could be called
323  directly instead of the function table (with a switch on p->rotate)
324
325- fb_copyarea is unused after this, and can be deleted from all drivers
326
327Note that not all acceleration code can be deleted, since clearing and cursor
328support is still accelerated, which might be good candidates for further
329deletion projects.
330
331Contact: Daniel Vetter
332
333Level: Intermediate
334
335idr_init_base()
336---------------
337
338DRM core&drivers uses a lot of idr (integer lookup directories) for mapping
339userspace IDs to internal objects, and in most places ID=0 means NULL and hence
340is never used. Switching to idr_init_base() for these would make the idr more
341efficient.
342
343Contact: Daniel Vetter
344
345Level: Starter
346
347struct drm_gem_object_funcs
348---------------------------
349
350GEM objects can now have a function table instead of having the callbacks on the
351DRM driver struct. This is now the preferred way. Callbacks in drivers have been
352converted, except for struct drm_driver.gem_prime_mmap.
353
354Level: Intermediate
355
356Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers
357---------------------------------
358
359CMA (standing for contiguous memory allocator) is really a bit an accident of
360what these were used for first, a much better name would be DMA helpers. In the
361text these should even be called coherent DMA memory helpers (so maybe CDM, but
362no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent.
363
364Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter
365
366Level: Intermediate (mostly because it is a huge tasks without good partial
367milestones, not technically itself that challenging)
368
369connector register/unregister fixes
370-----------------------------------
371
372- For most connectors it's a no-op to call drm_connector_register/unregister
373  directly from driver code, drm_dev_register/unregister take care of this
374  already. We can remove all of them.
375
376- For dp drivers it's a bit more a mess, since we need the connector to be
377  registered when calling drm_dp_aux_register. Fix this by instead calling
378  drm_dp_aux_init, and moving the actual registering into a late_register
379  callback as recommended in the kerneldoc.
380
381Level: Intermediate
382
383Remove load/unload callbacks from all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers
384---------------------------------------------------------------
385
386The load/unload callbacks in struct &drm_driver are very much midlayers, plus
387for historical reasons they get the ordering wrong (and we can't fix that)
388between setting up the &drm_driver structure and calling drm_dev_register().
389
390- Rework drivers to no longer use the load/unload callbacks, directly coding the
391  load/unload sequence into the driver's probe function.
392
393- Once all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers are converted, disallow the load/unload
394  callbacks for all modern drivers.
395
396Contact: Daniel Vetter
397
398Level: Intermediate
399
400Replace drm_detect_hdmi_monitor() with drm_display_info.is_hdmi
401---------------------------------------------------------------
402
403Once EDID is parsed, the monitor HDMI support information is available through
404drm_display_info.is_hdmi. Many drivers still call drm_detect_hdmi_monitor() to
405retrieve the same information, which is less efficient.
406
407Audit each individual driver calling drm_detect_hdmi_monitor() and switch to
408drm_display_info.is_hdmi if applicable.
409
410Contact: Laurent Pinchart, respective driver maintainers
411
412Level: Intermediate
413
414Consolidate custom driver modeset properties
415--------------------------------------------
416
417Before atomic modeset took place, many drivers where creating their own
418properties. Among other things, atomic brought the requirement that custom,
419driver specific properties should not be used.
420
421For this task, we aim to introduce core helpers or reuse the existing ones
422if available:
423
424A quick, unconfirmed, examples list.
425
426Introduce core helpers:
427- audio (amdgpu, intel, gma500, radeon)
428- brightness, contrast, etc (armada, nouveau) - overlay only (?)
429- broadcast rgb (gma500, intel)
430- colorkey (armada, nouveau, rcar) - overlay only (?)
431- dither (amdgpu, nouveau, radeon) - varies across drivers
432- underscan family (amdgpu, radeon, nouveau)
433
434Already in core:
435- colorspace (sti)
436- tv format names, enhancements (gma500, intel)
437- tv overscan, margins, etc. (gma500, intel)
438- zorder (omapdrm) - same as zpos (?)
439
440
441Contact: Emil Velikov, respective driver maintainers
442
443Level: Intermediate
444
445Use struct dma_buf_map throughout codebase
446------------------------------------------
447
448Pointers to shared device memory are stored in struct dma_buf_map. Each
449instance knows whether it refers to system or I/O memory. Most of the DRM-wide
450interface have been converted to use struct dma_buf_map, but implementations
451often still use raw pointers.
452
453The task is to use struct dma_buf_map where it makes sense.
454
455* Memory managers should use struct dma_buf_map for dma-buf-imported buffers.
456* TTM might benefit from using struct dma_buf_map internally.
457* Framebuffer copying and blitting helpers should operate on struct dma_buf_map.
458
459Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Christian König, Daniel Vetter
460
461Level: Intermediate
462
463
464Core refactorings
465=================
466
467Make panic handling work
468------------------------
469
470This is a really varied tasks with lots of little bits and pieces:
471
472* The panic path can't be tested currently, leading to constant breaking. The
473  main issue here is that panics can be triggered from hardirq contexts and
474  hence all panic related callback can run in hardirq context. It would be
475  awesome if we could test at least the fbdev helper code and driver code by
476  e.g. trigger calls through drm debugfs files. hardirq context could be
477  achieved by using an IPI to the local processor.
478
479* There's a massive confusion of different panic handlers. DRM fbdev emulation
480  helpers have one, but on top of that the fbcon code itself also has one. We
481  need to make sure that they stop fighting over each another.
482
483* ``drm_can_sleep()`` is a mess. It hides real bugs in normal operations and
484  isn't a full solution for panic paths. We need to make sure that it only
485  returns true if there's a panic going on for real, and fix up all the
486  fallout.
487
488* The panic handler must never sleep, which also means it can't ever
489  ``mutex_lock()``. Also it can't grab any other lock unconditionally, not
490  even spinlocks (because NMI and hardirq can panic too). We need to either
491  make sure to not call such paths, or trylock everything. Really tricky.
492
493* For the above locking troubles reasons it's pretty much impossible to
494  attempt a synchronous modeset from panic handlers. The only thing we could
495  try to achive is an atomic ``set_base`` of the primary plane, and hope that
496  it shows up. Everything else probably needs to be delayed to some worker or
497  something else which happens later on. Otherwise it just kills the box
498  harder, prevent the panic from going out on e.g. netconsole.
499
500* There's also proposal for a simplied DRM console instead of the full-blown
501  fbcon and DRM fbdev emulation. Any kind of panic handling tricks should
502  obviously work for both console, in case we ever get kmslog merged.
503
504Contact: Daniel Vetter
505
506Level: Advanced
507
508Clean up the debugfs support
509----------------------------
510
511There's a bunch of issues with it:
512
513- The drm_info_list ->show() function doesn't even bother to cast to the drm
514  structure for you. This is lazy.
515
516- We probably want to have some support for debugfs files on crtc/connectors and
517  maybe other kms objects directly in core. There's even drm_print support in
518  the funcs for these objects to dump kms state, so it's all there. And then the
519  ->show() functions should obviously give you a pointer to the right object.
520
521- The drm_info_list stuff is centered on drm_minor instead of drm_device. For
522  anything we want to print drm_device (or maybe drm_file) is the right thing.
523
524- The drm_driver->debugfs_init hooks we have is just an artifact of the old
525  midlayered load sequence. DRM debugfs should work more like sysfs, where you
526  can create properties/files for an object anytime you want, and the core
527  takes care of publishing/unpuplishing all the files at register/unregister
528  time. Drivers shouldn't need to worry about these technicalities, and fixing
529  this (together with the drm_minor->drm_device move) would allow us to remove
530  debugfs_init.
531
532Previous RFC that hasn't landed yet: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200513114130.28641-2-wambui.karugax@gmail.com/
533
534Contact: Daniel Vetter
535
536Level: Intermediate
537
538Object lifetime fixes
539---------------------
540
541There's two related issues here
542
543- Cleanup up the various ->destroy callbacks, which often are all the same
544  simple code.
545
546- Lots of drivers erroneously allocate DRM modeset objects using devm_kzalloc,
547  which results in use-after free issues on driver unload. This can be serious
548  trouble even for drivers for hardware integrated on the SoC due to
549  EPROBE_DEFERRED backoff.
550
551Both these problems can be solved by switching over to drmm_kzalloc(), and the
552various convenience wrappers provided, e.g. drmm_crtc_alloc_with_planes(),
553drmm_universal_plane_alloc(), ... and so on.
554
555Contact: Daniel Vetter
556
557Level: Intermediate
558
559Remove automatic page mapping from dma-buf importing
560----------------------------------------------------
561
562When importing dma-bufs, the dma-buf and PRIME frameworks automatically map
563imported pages into the importer's DMA area. drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle() and
564drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd() require that importers call dma_buf_attach()
565even if they never do actual device DMA, but only CPU access through
566dma_buf_vmap(). This is a problem for USB devices, which do not support DMA
567operations.
568
569To fix the issue, automatic page mappings should be removed from the
570buffer-sharing code. Fixing this is a bit more involved, since the import/export
571cache is also tied to &drm_gem_object.import_attach. Meanwhile we paper over
572this problem for USB devices by fishing out the USB host controller device, as
573long as that supports DMA. Otherwise importing can still needlessly fail.
574
575Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Daniel Vetter
576
577Level: Advanced
578
579
580Better Testing
581==============
582
583Enable trinity for DRM
584----------------------
585
586And fix up the fallout. Should be really interesting ...
587
588Level: Advanced
589
590Make KMS tests in i-g-t generic
591-------------------------------
592
593The i915 driver team maintains an extensive testsuite for the i915 DRM driver,
594including tons of testcases for corner-cases in the modesetting API. It would
595be awesome if those tests (at least the ones not relying on Intel-specific GEM
596features) could be made to run on any KMS driver.
597
598Basic work to run i-g-t tests on non-i915 is done, what's now missing is mass-
599converting things over. For modeset tests we also first need a bit of
600infrastructure to use dumb buffers for untiled buffers, to be able to run all
601the non-i915 specific modeset tests.
602
603Level: Advanced
604
605Extend virtual test driver (VKMS)
606---------------------------------
607
608See the documentation of :ref:`VKMS <vkms>` for more details. This is an ideal
609internship task, since it only requires a virtual machine and can be sized to
610fit the available time.
611
612Level: See details
613
614Backlight Refactoring
615---------------------
616
617Backlight drivers have a triple enable/disable state, which is a bit overkill.
618Plan to fix this:
619
6201. Roll out backlight_enable() and backlight_disable() helpers everywhere. This
621   has started already.
6222. In all, only look at one of the three status bits set by the above helpers.
6233. Remove the other two status bits.
624
625Contact: Daniel Vetter
626
627Level: Intermediate
628
629Driver Specific
630===============
631
632AMD DC Display Driver
633---------------------
634
635AMD DC is the display driver for AMD devices starting with Vega. There has been
636a bunch of progress cleaning it up but there's still plenty of work to be done.
637
638See drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/TODO for tasks.
639
640Contact: Harry Wentland, Alex Deucher
641
642Bootsplash
643==========
644
645There is support in place now for writing internal DRM clients making it
646possible to pick up the bootsplash work that was rejected because it was written
647for fbdev.
648
649- [v6,8/8] drm/client: Hack: Add bootsplash example
650  https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/306579/
651
652- [RFC PATCH v2 00/13] Kernel based bootsplash
653  https://lore.kernel.org/r/20171213194755.3409-1-mstaudt@suse.de
654
655Contact: Sam Ravnborg
656
657Level: Advanced
658
659Outside DRM
660===========
661
662Convert fbdev drivers to DRM
663----------------------------
664
665There are plenty of fbdev drivers for older hardware. Some hardware has
666become obsolete, but some still provides good(-enough) framebuffers. The
667drivers that are still useful should be converted to DRM and afterwards
668removed from fbdev.
669
670Very simple fbdev drivers can best be converted by starting with a new
671DRM driver. Simple KMS helpers and SHMEM should be able to handle any
672existing hardware. The new driver's call-back functions are filled from
673existing fbdev code.
674
675More complex fbdev drivers can be refactored step-by-step into a DRM
676driver with the help of the DRM fbconv helpers. [1] These helpers provide
677the transition layer between the DRM core infrastructure and the fbdev
678driver interface. Create a new DRM driver on top of the fbconv helpers,
679copy over the fbdev driver, and hook it up to the DRM code. Examples for
680several fbdev drivers are available at [1] and a tutorial of this process
681available at [2]. The result is a primitive DRM driver that can run X11
682and Weston.
683
684 - [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/tree/fbconv
685 - [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/blob/fbconv/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbconv_helper.c
686
687Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
688
689Level: Advanced
690