From a689b8b9dfae6680fa1ac69c3661cd10f9fd442b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Anholt Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:34:54 -0700 Subject: vc4: Add a comment with discussion of how simulation works. --- src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_simulator.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/gallium/drivers') diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_simulator.c b/src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_simulator.c index 4ddca62c65a..43e7f979618 100644 --- a/src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_simulator.c +++ b/src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_simulator.c @@ -21,6 +21,31 @@ * IN THE SOFTWARE. */ +/** + * @file vc4_simulator.c + * + * Implements VC4 simulation on top of a non-VC4 GEM fd. + * + * This file's goal is to emulate the VC4 ioctls' behavior in the kernel on + * top of the simpenrose software simulator. Generally, VC4 driver BOs have a + * GEM-side copy of their contents and a simulator-side memory area that the + * GEM contents get copied into during simulation. Once simulation is done, + * the simulator's data is copied back out to the GEM BOs, so that rendering + * appears on the screen as if actual hardware rendering had been done. + * + * One of the limitations of this code is that we shouldn't really need a + * GEM-side BO for non-window-system BOs. However, do we need unique BO + * handles for each of our GEM bos so that this file can look up its state + * from the handle passed in at submit ioctl time (also, a couple of places + * outside of this file still call ioctls directly on the fd). + * + * Another limitation is that BO import doesn't work unless the underlying + * window system's BO size matches what VC4 is going to use, which of course + * doesn't work out in practice. This means that for now, only DRI3 (VC4 + * makes the winsys BOs) is supported, not DRI2 (window system makes the winys + * BOs). + */ + #ifdef USE_VC4_SIMULATOR #include -- cgit v1.2.3