This ioctl is more appropriate when the hardware supports flushing of
the entire framebuffer, so we use that instead of the previous default
FB_IOCTL_FLUSH_HEAD_BUFFERS ioctl.
Such mechanism will be used by the Intel Graphics driver, because we
lack support of changing the resolution on this driver currently, so,
when WindowServer will try to mode-set the display then it will fail,
and will use the safe mode-setting call instead to be able to show
something on screen.
We create a base class called GenericFramebufferDevice, which defines
all the virtual functions that must be implemented by a
FramebufferDevice. Then, we make the VirtIO FramebufferDevice and other
FramebufferDevice implementations inherit from it.
The most important consequence of rearranging the classes is that we now
have one IOCTL method, so all drivers should be committed to not
override the IOCTL method or make their own IOCTLs of FramebufferDevice.
All graphical IOCTLs are known to all FramebufferDevices, and it's up to
the specific implementation whether to support them or discard them (so
we require extensive usage of KResult and KResultOr, together with
virtual characteristic functions).
As a result, the interface is much cleaner and understandable to read.
Depending on the driver, the second buffer may not be located right
after the first, e.g. it may be page aligned. This removes this
assumption and queries the driver for the appropriate offset.
Some devices may require DMA transfers to flush the updated buffer
areas prior to flipping. For those devices we track the areas that
require flushing prior to the next flip. For devices that do not
support flipping, but require flushing, we'll simply flush after
updating the front buffer.
This also adds a small optimization that skips these steps entirely for
a screen that doesn't have any updates that need to be rendered.
We regularily need to flush many rectangles, so instead of making many
expensive ioctl() calls to the framebuffer driver, collect the
rectangles and only make one call. And if we have too many rectangles
then it may be cheaper to just update the entire region, in which case
we simply convert them all into a union and just flush that one
rectangle instead.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
The compiler can't see that the definitions inside the .h file aren't meant to be
public symbols. So in a hypothetical program which uses the Kernel API, each(\!)
compilation unit that includes FB.h would define those fb_get_size_in_bytes symbols.
If that happens twice or more times, that would cause linker errors.
Since the functions are very short, inlining them seems like a good idea.
Also, using FB.h should be possible even if the containing compilation unit
doesn't already define size_t, so I added that header (stddef), too.