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Diffstat (limited to 'include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h index 72478cf82147..69c3974bf133 100644 --- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h +++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h @@ -999,10 +999,14 @@ struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs { * to implement blocking and nonblocking commits easily. It is not used * by the atomic helpers * - * This hook should first commit the given atomic state to the hardware. - * But drivers can add more waiting calls at the start of their - * implementation, e.g. to wait for driver-internal request for implicit - * syncing, before starting to commit the update to the hardware. + * This function is called when the new atomic state has already been + * swapped into the various state pointers. The passed in state + * therefore contains copies of the old/previous state. This hook should + * commit the new state into hardware. Note that the helpers have + * already waited for preceeding atomic commits and fences, but drivers + * can add more waiting calls at the start of their implementation, e.g. + * to wait for driver-internal request for implicit syncing, before + * starting to commit the update to the hardware. * * After the atomic update is committed to the hardware this hook needs * to call drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(). Then wait for the upate |