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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl index 0d2adf9825e9..e377b88304ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl @@ -60,7 +60,15 @@ <toc></toc> - <!-- Introduction --> +<part id="drmCore"> + <title>DRM Core</title> + <partintro> + <para> + This first part of the DRM Developer's Guide documents core DRM code, + helper libraries for writting drivers and generic userspace interfaces + exposed by DRM drivers. + </para> + </partintro> <chapter id="drmIntroduction"> <title>Introduction</title> @@ -2764,15 +2772,73 @@ int (*resume) (struct drm_device *);</synopsis> </sect1> </chapter> +</part> +<part id="drmDrivers"> + <title>DRM Drivers</title> - <!-- API reference --> + <partintro> + <para> + This second part of the DRM Developer's Guide documents driver code, + implementation details and also all the driver-specific userspace + interfaces. Especially since all hardware-acceleration interfaces to + userspace are driver specific for efficiency and other reasons these + interfaces can be rather substantial. Hence every driver has its own + chapter. + </para> + </partintro> - <appendix id="drmDriverApi"> - <title>DRM Driver API</title> + <chapter id="drmI915"> + <title>drm/i915 Intel GFX Driver</title> <para> - Include auto-generated API reference here (need to reference it - from paragraphs above too). + The drm/i915 driver supports all (with the exception of some very early + models) integrated GFX chipsets with both Intel display and rendering + blocks. This excludes a set of SoC platforms with an SGX rendering unit, + those have basic support through the gma500 drm driver. </para> - </appendix> + <sect1> + <title>Display Hardware Handling</title> + <para> + This section covers everything related to the display hardware including + the mode setting infrastructure, plane, sprite and cursor handling and + display, output probing and related topics. + </para> + <sect2> + <title>Mode Setting Infrastructure</title> + <para> + The i915 driver is thus far the only DRM driver which doesn't use the + common DRM helper code to implement mode setting sequences. Thus it + has its own tailor-made infrastructure for executing a display + configuration change. + </para> + </sect2> + <sect2> + <title>Plane Configuration</title> + <para> + This section covers plane configuration and composition with the + primary plane, sprites, cursors and overlays. This includes the + infrastructure to do atomic vsync'ed updates of all this state and + also tightly coupled topics like watermark setup and computation, + framebuffer compression and panel self refresh. + </para> + </sect2> + <sect2> + <title>Output Probing</title> + <para> + This section covers output probing and related infrastructure like the + hotplug interrupt storm detection and mitigation code. Note that the + i915 driver still uses most of the common DRM helper code for output + probing, so those sections fully apply. + </para> + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1> + <title>Memory Management and Command Submission</title> + <para> + This sections covers all things related to the GEM implementation in the + i915 driver. + </para> + </sect1> + </chapter> +</part> </book> |
