Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:50:30 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm/doc: Add section in the introduction page about learning material | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> |
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Hello Thomas,
On 1/27/22 10:18, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Hi Javier, > > thanks for this patch. > > Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> >
Thanks!
> Find some ideas for consideration below. >
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>> + >> +Learning material >> +================= > > Maybe 'External References'. >
Agreed, I'll change it.
>> + >> +Since the Linux DRM layer supports complex graphics devices, it can be quite >> +overwhelming for newcomers to get familiar with all the needed concepts and >> +learn the subsystem's internals. > > It sounds a bit intimdating to me. Can we give it a positive spin? >
Pekka also had reservations about this paragraph, so I think that will just drop it. The goal of having this section was to ease the learning curve but the way I worded it may reinforce the perception that DRM is hard to learn.
> IMHO we could add a separate section that talks about complexity and > provides guidelines about how to deal with it: trivial HW? use simple > pipe; dedicated VRAM? try TTM; awkward color formats? see > drm_format_helper.c >
Indeed. And we can add such section as a follow-up. Maybe referring to some of the drivers in drivers/gpu/drm/tiny.
Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
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