[PATCH 0/5] sandbox: video: Refactor out of uclass, try partial screen updates

[Alper Nebi Yasak]

While working on the video damage tracking series [1], I noticed the
10Hz limitation on the sandbox screen refresh rate, and thought maybe
applying the damage tracking idea to SDL would make it reasonable to
increase the rate or even remove the limit completely.

Experimenting on that idea resulted in a bit of a refactoring to pull
sandbox out of the video uclass, so I'm sending it as a series in case
some of it could be useful.

As for the partial update idea itself, I found that having the delay
around 1/refresh-rate appears to be the most visually smooth (about
7ms for 144Hz, 16ms for 60Hz etc.), but couldn't exactly evaluate CPU
usage for which the original 10Hz rate limit was set. In any case, the
visual appeal of sandbox doesn't really matter, so I don't exactly care.

Of course, this applies onto the video damage tracking series that I
recently updated and sent [1], but only the "partial updates" patch
is functionally dependent on it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20230821135111.3558478-1-alpernebiyasak@gmail.com/


Alper Nebi Yasak (5):
  sandbox: video: Display copy framebuffer if enabled
  video: Allow deferring and retrying driver-specific video sync
  sandbox: video: Move sync rate limit into SDL code
  sandbox: video: Move sandbox video sync to a driver operation
  RFC: sandbox: video: Use partial updates for SDL display

 arch/sandbox/cpu/sdl.c         | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 arch/sandbox/include/asm/sdl.h | 13 ++++++++++---
 drivers/video/sandbox_sdl.c    | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/video/video-uclass.c   | 14 ++------------
 include/video.h                |  3 ++-
 test/dm/video.c                |  2 +-
 6 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)


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