drm/cirrus: Enable damage clipping on primary plane
Enable damage clipping on the primary plane and iterate over small areas of reported framebuffer damage. Avoid the overhead of permanent full-screen updates that cirrus currently implements. This problem is indicated by the warning drm_plane_enable_fb_damage_clips() not called in the kernel's log. Without damage clipping, drivers do full updates of the screen area. This is costly as many screen updates, such as cursor movement or command-line input, only change a small portion of the output. Damage clipping allows renderers to inform drivers about the changed areas. With the damage information known, cirrus now iterates over a list of change areas and only flushes those to the hardware's scanout buffer. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230215161517.5113-10-tzimmermann@suse.de
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