drm/fourcc: document modifier uniqueness requirements
There have suggestions to bake pitch alignment, address alignment,
contiguous memory or other placement (hidden VRAM, GTT/BAR, etc)
constraints into modifiers. Last time this was brought up it seemed
like the consensus was to not allow this. Document this in drm_fourcc.h.
There are several reasons for this.
- Encoding all of these constraints in the modifiers would explode the
search space pretty quickly (we only have 64 bits to work with).
- Modifiers need to be unambiguous: a buffer can only have a single
modifier.
- Modifier users aren't expected to parse modifiers (except drivers).
v2: add paragraph about aliases (Daniel)
v3: fix unrelated changes sent with the patch
v4: disambiguate users between driver and higher-level programs (Brian,
Daniel)
v5: fix AFBC example (Brian, Daniel)
v6: remove duplicated paragraph (Daniel)
Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Cc: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas@basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Olšák <maraeo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/MGwgeXojKNdNXjCxuMhRlwcJM4vdYph_WJcMeGPPGMcRKtHV41XAXlh2tCc-pPJZCAhS3gwbWMWTd8f03NBA2ZYKfr0QxLhcPivpopr5c6M=@emersion.fr
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