On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 05:38:11PM +0530, ext Hiremath, Vaibhav wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hiremath, Vaibhav
> > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 5:34 PM
> > To: 'Måns Rullgård'; [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: OMAP:DSS: possible bug in WAITFOR_VSYNC ioctl
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-omap-
> > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Måns Rullgård
> > > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 2:09 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: OMAP:DSS: possible bug in WAITFOR_VSYNC ioctl
> > >
> > > "Hiremath, Vaibhav" <[email protected]> writes:
> > >
> > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > >> From: Ville Syrjälä [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > >> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:01 PM
> > > >> To: Hiremath, Vaibhav
> > > >> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen; [email protected]
> > > >> Subject: Re: OMAP:DSS: possible bug in WAITFOR_VSYNC ioctl
> > > >>
> > > >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:39:44PM +0530, ext Hiremath, Vaibhav
> > wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >> > > From: Tomi Valkeinen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > >> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:28 PM
> > > >> > > To: Hiremath, Vaibhav
> > > >> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > >> > > Subject: Re: OMAP:DSS: possible bug in WAITFOR_VSYNC ioctl
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 23:46 +0530, ext Hiremath, Vaibhav wrote:
> > > >> > > > Hi,
> > > > <snip>
> > > >> >
> <snip..>
> > 
> > > > As far as WAITFORGO is concerned, I think GO bit concept is
> > > > something OMAP notion/term and doesn't make sense to standardize
> > > > it. Atleast I am not aware of any other architecture having GO bit.
> > >
> > > Naming is minor detail.  Feel free to suggest a better one.
> > >
> > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] If I fail to convince on this, then I think the only
> > left option is to make WAITFORGO ioctl generic. And put a disclaimer on
> > WAITFORVSYNC, it must not be used in panning use-case.
> > 
> > 
> [Hiremath, Vaibhav] Also let me bring another point here,
> 
> If I understand correctly most of the application libraries (DirectFB, X, 
> etc..) does use FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC to synchronize with HW, and manage ping 
> pong mechanism.

DirectFB uses it also for waiting for vsync.

> With this finding, in case of OMAP3 we have to use OMAPFB_WAITFORGO (breaking 
> standard applications).

Applications using the standard fbdev API won't work with manual update
displays anyway. You need omapfb specific code to handle it so having
another small difference is not a big deal.

In DirectFB the that's trivial since there's already a simple omap
gfxdriver where you could override the default flip functionality with
WAITFORGO based stuff.

Or, as I said, you could add another standard ioctl and fix up userspace
to use it where appropriate and if the kernel driver supports it.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
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