[PATCH RFC 0/6] AFBC fixes for MediaTek DRM

[Nícolas F. R. A. Prado]

On Tue, 2025-12-30 at 11:03 -0300, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> This series contains a handful of fixes for AFBC support on the
> MediaTek
> DRM driver so that it can be re-enabled.
> 
> This is sent as an RFC because there are still some issues to work
> out
> before the series can be merged:
> 
> 1. Patch 4, 'drm/mediatek: ovl: Disallow AFBC buffers with width over
>    1920' did not behave well when tested with Weston, so a better
>    solution probably needs to be implemented before this can be
> merged.
> 
> 2. Remaining AFBC issues:
>    
>    a. The first 4 pixel rows are always skipped in the displayed
> output,
>       that is, the first displayed pixel, on the top-left corner,
>       corresponds to 4x0. And below the end of the displayed output,
> the
>       first 4x32 pixels are displayed.
> 
>    b. On some resolutions, there are still artifacts that look like
>       misalignment issues, eg 1024x1080, 1080x1080.
> 
>    c. On some resolutions, no output at all is displayed, eg
> 1920x1080.

I received a suggestion that the Lx_2ND_SUBBUF bit in OVL is not needed
when cropping is not enabled, and that removing it should fix the extra
pixels after the image described in 2.a., and perhaps even fix AFBC not
working with MT8188, though I haven't had time to test it.


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Thanks,

Nícolas