gma pipe_setup skl+: Revise default buffer allocation

To be able to use the second plane as a cursor, we need to make
some space in the buffer allocation. The old allocation was based
on the wrong assumption that we only have 3x 160 buffer blocks
available. Actually, the minimum is set by Apollo Lake, with 508
usable buffer blocks.

For a 3840x2160 framebuffer, we need at least 123 buffer blocks
for the first plane (without accounting for an undocumented work-
around condition, 243 blocks otherwise). We allocate the minimum
for cursors (cursor and second plane with y-tiling) as follows:

* First plane: 150 blocks
* Second plane: 11 blocks
* Cursor plane:  8 blocks

Actually, we will never enable the second plane for a cursor at
the same time as the cursor plane is used, so there is still some
potential savings.

Change-Id: Ie471a8b5ea7f0e94aae0c69b0bf128cce1930d2c
Signed-off-by: Nico Huber <nico.huber@secunet.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.sourcearcade.org/c/libgfxinit/+/543
Tested-by: Ada SPARK <gnatbot@sourcearcade.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Heijligen <src@posteo.de>
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  4. .gitignore
  5. COPYING
  6. Makefile
  7. Makefile.inc
  8. README.md
  9. TODO
README.md

libgfxinit

libgfxinit is a graphics initialization (aka modesetting) library for embedded environments. It currently supports only Intel hardware, more specifically the Intel Core processor line.

It can query and set up most kinds of displays based on their EDID information. You can, however, also specify particular mode lines.

libgfxinit is written in SPARK, an Ada subset with formal verification aspects. Absence of runtime errors can be proved automatically with SPARK GPL 2016.

Building on Linux

Prerequisites

For compilation, the GNAT Ada compiler is required. Usual package names in Linux distributions are gcc-ada and gnat.

Grab the Sources

You'll need libhwbase and libgfxinit. Best is to clone the repositories into a common parent directory (this way libgfxinit will know where to find libhwbase).

$ mkdir gfxfun && cd gfxfun
$ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/p/libhwbase.git
$ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/p/libgfxinit.git

Configure and Install libhwbase

Both libraries are currently configured by hand-written config files. You can either write your own .config, link one of the shipped files in configs/, e.g.:

$ ln -s configs/linux libhwbase/.config

or overwrite the config filename by specifying cnf=<configfile> on the make command line.

By default most debug messages won't be compiled into the binary. To include them into the build, set DEBUG=1 on the command line or in your .config.

Let's install libhwbase. We'll need configs/linux to build regular Linux executables:

$ cd libhwbase
$ make DEBUG=1 cnf=configs/linux install

By default this installs into a new subdirectory dest. You can however overwrite this decision by specifying DESTDIR=.

Build libgfxinit/gfx_test

libgfxinit is configured and installed in the same manner as described above. You will have to select a configuration matching your hardware.

The makefile knows an additional target gfx_test to build a small Linux test application:

$ cd ../libgfxinit
$ make DEBUG=1 cnf=configs/sandybridge gfx_test

The resulting binary is build/gfx_test.

Testing libgfxinit on Linux

gfx_test sets up its own framebuffer in the stolen memory. It backs any current framebuffer mapping and contents up first and restores it before exiting. This works somehow even while the i915 driver is running. A wrapper script gfxtest/gfx_test.sh is provided to help with the setup. It switches to a text console first and tries to unload the i915 driver. But ignores failures to do so (it won't work if you still have any application running that uses the gfx driver, e.g. an X server).

# gfxtest/gfx_test.sh

If you chose the right config above, you should be presented with a nice test image. But please be prepared that your console might be stuck in that state afterwards. You can try to run it with i915 deactivated then (e.g. when booting with nomodeset in the kernel command line or with i915 blacklisted) and loading it afterwards.