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Title: KMS abstraction
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The KMS abstraction consists of various building blocks for helping out with
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interacting with the various drm API's, enabling users to use a
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transactional API, aiming to hide all interaction with the underlying APIs.
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The subsystem defines two separate contexts, the "main" context, and the
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"impl" context. The main context is the context of which mutter as a whole
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runs in. It uses the main GLib main loop and main context and always runs in
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the main thread.
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The impl context is where all underlying API is being executed. While in the
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current state, it always runs in the main thread, the aim is to be able to
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execute the impl context in a dedicated thread.
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The public facing MetaKms API is always assumed to be executed from the main
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context.
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The KMS abstraction consists of the following public components:
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### `MetaKms`
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Main entry point; used by the native backend to create devices, post updates
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etc.
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### `MetaKmsDevice`
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A device (usually /dev/dri/cardN, where N being a number). Used to get KMS
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objects, such as connectors, CRTCs, planes, as well as basic meta data such
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as device path etc.
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### `MetaKmsCrtc`
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Represents a CRTC. It manages a representation of the current CRTC state,
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including current mode, coordinates, possible clones.
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### `MetaKmsConnector`
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Represents a connector, e.g. a display port connection. It also manages a
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representation of the current state, including meta data such as physical
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dimension of the connected, available modes, EDID, tile info etc. It also
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contains helper functions for configuration, as well as methods for adding
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configuration to a transaction (See `MetaKmsUpdate`).
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### `MetaKmsPlane`
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Represents a hardware plane. A plane is used to define the content of what
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should be presented on a CRTC. Planes can either be primary planes, used as
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a backdrop for CRTCs, overlay planes, and cursor planes.
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### `MetaKmsMode`
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Represents a mode a CRTC and connector can be configured with.
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Represents both modes directly derived from the devices, as well as
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fall back modes when the CRTC supports scaling.
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### `MetaKmsUpdate`
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A KMS transaction object, meant to be processed potentially atomically when
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posted. An update consists of plane assignments, mode sets and KMS object
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property entries. The user adds updates to the object, and then posts it via
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MetaKms. It will then be processed by the MetaKms backend (See
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`MetaKmsImpl`), potentially atomically. Each `MetaKmsUpdate` deals with
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updating a single device.
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There are also these private objects, without public facing API:
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### `MetaKmsImpl`
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The KMS impl context object, managing things in the impl context.
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### `MetaKmsImplDevice`
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An object linked to a `MetaKmsDevice`, but where it is executed in the impl
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context. It takes care of the updating of the various KMS object (CRTC,
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connector, ..) states.
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This is an abstract type, with currently `MetaKmsImplDeviceSimple`
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implementing mode setting and page flipping using legacy DRM API.
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### `MetaKmsPageFlip`
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A object representing a page flip. It's created when a page flip is queued,
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and contains information necessary to provide feedback to the one requesting
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the page flip.
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