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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<protocol name="linux_dmabuf_unstable_v1">
3
4  <copyright>
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26
27  <interface name="zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1" version="3">
28    <description summary="factory for creating dmabuf-based wl_buffers">
29      Following the interfaces from:
30      https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import.txt
31      and the Linux DRM sub-system's AddFb2 ioctl.
32
33      This interface offers ways to create generic dmabuf-based
34      wl_buffers. Immediately after a client binds to this interface,
35      the set of supported formats and format modifiers is sent with
36      'format' and 'modifier' events.
37
38      The following are required from clients:
39
40      - Clients must ensure that either all data in the dma-buf is
41        coherent for all subsequent read access or that coherency is
42        correctly handled by the underlying kernel-side dma-buf
43        implementation.
44
45      - Don't make any more attachments after sending the buffer to the
46        compositor. Making more attachments later increases the risk of
47        the compositor not being able to use (re-import) an existing
48        dmabuf-based wl_buffer.
49
50      The underlying graphics stack must ensure the following:
51
52      - The dmabuf file descriptors relayed to the server will stay valid
53        for the whole lifetime of the wl_buffer. This means the server may
54        at any time use those fds to import the dmabuf into any kernel
55        sub-system that might accept it.
56
57      To create a wl_buffer from one or more dmabufs, a client creates a
58      zwp_linux_dmabuf_params_v1 object with a zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1.create_params
59      request. All planes required by the intended format are added with
60      the 'add' request. Finally, a 'create' or 'create_immed' request is
61      issued, which has the following outcome depending on the import success.
62
63      The 'create' request,
64      - on success, triggers a 'created' event which provides the final
65        wl_buffer to the client.
66      - on failure, triggers a 'failed' event to convey that the server
67        cannot use the dmabufs received from the client.
68
69      For the 'create_immed' request,
70      - on success, the server immediately imports the added dmabufs to
71        create a wl_buffer. No event is sent from the server in this case.
72      - on failure, the server can choose to either:
73        - terminate the client by raising a fatal error.
74        - mark the wl_buffer as failed, and send a 'failed' event to the
75          client. If the client uses a failed wl_buffer as an argument to any
76          request, the behaviour is compositor implementation-defined.
77
78      Warning! The protocol described in this file is experimental and
79      backward incompatible changes may be made. Backward compatible changes
80      may be added together with the corresponding interface version bump.
81      Backward incompatible changes are done by bumping the version number in
82      the protocol and interface names and resetting the interface version.
83      Once the protocol is to be declared stable, the 'z' prefix and the
84      version number in the protocol and interface names are removed and the
85      interface version number is reset.
86    </description>
87
88    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
89      <description summary="unbind the factory">
90        Objects created through this interface, especially wl_buffers, will
91        remain valid.
92      </description>
93    </request>
94
95    <request name="create_params">
96      <description summary="create a temporary object for buffer parameters">
97        This temporary object is used to collect multiple dmabuf handles into
98        a single batch to create a wl_buffer. It can only be used once and
99        should be destroyed after a 'created' or 'failed' event has been
100        received.
101      </description>
102      <arg name="params_id" type="new_id" interface="zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1"
103           summary="the new temporary"/>
104    </request>
105
106    <event name="format">
107      <description summary="supported buffer format">
108        This event advertises one buffer format that the server supports.
109        All the supported formats are advertised once when the client
110        binds to this interface. A roundtrip after binding guarantees
111        that the client has received all supported formats.
112
113        For the definition of the format codes, see the
114        zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1::create request.
115
116        Warning: the 'format' event is likely to be deprecated and replaced
117        with the 'modifier' event introduced in zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1
118        version 3, described below. Please refrain from using the information
119        received from this event.
120      </description>
121      <arg name="format" type="uint" summary="DRM_FORMAT code"/>
122    </event>
123
124    <event name="modifier" since="3">
125      <description summary="supported buffer format modifier">
126        This event advertises the formats that the server supports, along with
127        the modifiers supported for each format. All the supported modifiers
128        for all the supported formats are advertised once when the client
129        binds to this interface. A roundtrip after binding guarantees that
130        the client has received all supported format-modifier pairs.
131
132        For the definition of the format and modifier codes, see the
133        zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1::create request.
134      </description>
135      <arg name="format" type="uint" summary="DRM_FORMAT code"/>
136      <arg name="modifier_hi" type="uint"
137           summary="high 32 bits of layout modifier"/>
138      <arg name="modifier_lo" type="uint"
139           summary="low 32 bits of layout modifier"/>
140    </event>
141  </interface>
142
143  <interface name="zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1" version="3">
144    <description summary="parameters for creating a dmabuf-based wl_buffer">
145      This temporary object is a collection of dmabufs and other
146      parameters that together form a single logical buffer. The temporary
147      object may eventually create one wl_buffer unless cancelled by
148      destroying it before requesting 'create'.
149
150      Single-planar formats only require one dmabuf, however
151      multi-planar formats may require more than one dmabuf. For all
152      formats, an 'add' request must be called once per plane (even if the
153      underlying dmabuf fd is identical).
154
155      You must use consecutive plane indices ('plane_idx' argument for 'add')
156      from zero to the number of planes used by the drm_fourcc format code.
157      All planes required by the format must be given exactly once, but can
158      be given in any order. Each plane index can be set only once.
159    </description>
160
161    <enum name="error">
162      <entry name="already_used" value="0"
163             summary="the dmabuf_batch object has already been used to create a wl_buffer"/>
164      <entry name="plane_idx" value="1"
165             summary="plane index out of bounds"/>
166      <entry name="plane_set" value="2"
167             summary="the plane index was already set"/>
168      <entry name="incomplete" value="3"
169             summary="missing or too many planes to create a buffer"/>
170      <entry name="invalid_format" value="4"
171             summary="format not supported"/>
172      <entry name="invalid_dimensions" value="5"
173             summary="invalid width or height"/>
174      <entry name="out_of_bounds" value="6"
175             summary="offset + stride * height goes out of dmabuf bounds"/>
176      <entry name="invalid_wl_buffer" value="7"
177             summary="invalid wl_buffer resulted from importing dmabufs via
178               the create_immed request on given buffer_params"/>
179    </enum>
180
181    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
182      <description summary="delete this object, used or not">
183        Cleans up the temporary data sent to the server for dmabuf-based
184        wl_buffer creation.
185      </description>
186    </request>
187
188    <request name="add">
189      <description summary="add a dmabuf to the temporary set">
190        This request adds one dmabuf to the set in this
191        zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1.
192
193        The 64-bit unsigned value combined from modifier_hi and modifier_lo
194        is the dmabuf layout modifier. DRM AddFB2 ioctl calls this the
195        fb modifier, which is defined in drm_mode.h of Linux UAPI.
196        This is an opaque token. Drivers use this token to express tiling,
197        compression, etc. driver-specific modifications to the base format
198        defined by the DRM fourcc code.
199
200        This request raises the PLANE_IDX error if plane_idx is too large.
201        The error PLANE_SET is raised if attempting to set a plane that
202        was already set.
203      </description>
204      <arg name="fd" type="fd" summary="dmabuf fd"/>
205      <arg name="plane_idx" type="uint" summary="plane index"/>
206      <arg name="offset" type="uint" summary="offset in bytes"/>
207      <arg name="stride" type="uint" summary="stride in bytes"/>
208      <arg name="modifier_hi" type="uint"
209           summary="high 32 bits of layout modifier"/>
210      <arg name="modifier_lo" type="uint"
211           summary="low 32 bits of layout modifier"/>
212    </request>
213
214    <enum name="flags">
215      <entry name="y_invert" value="1" summary="contents are y-inverted"/>
216      <entry name="interlaced" value="2" summary="content is interlaced"/>
217      <entry name="bottom_first" value="4" summary="bottom field first"/>
218    </enum>
219
220    <request name="create">
221      <description summary="create a wl_buffer from the given dmabufs">
222        This asks for creation of a wl_buffer from the added dmabuf
223        buffers. The wl_buffer is not created immediately but returned via
224        the 'created' event if the dmabuf sharing succeeds. The sharing
225        may fail at runtime for reasons a client cannot predict, in
226        which case the 'failed' event is triggered.
227
228        The 'format' argument is a DRM_FORMAT code, as defined by the
229        libdrm's drm_fourcc.h. The Linux kernel's DRM sub-system is the
230        authoritative source on how the format codes should work.
231
232        The 'flags' is a bitfield of the flags defined in enum "flags".
233        'y_invert' means the that the image needs to be y-flipped.
234
235        Flag 'interlaced' means that the frame in the buffer is not
236        progressive as usual, but interlaced. An interlaced buffer as
237        supported here must always contain both top and bottom fields.
238        The top field always begins on the first pixel row. The temporal
239        ordering between the two fields is top field first, unless
240        'bottom_first' is specified. It is undefined whether 'bottom_first'
241        is ignored if 'interlaced' is not set.
242
243        This protocol does not convey any information about field rate,
244        duration, or timing, other than the relative ordering between the
245        two fields in one buffer. A compositor may have to estimate the
246        intended field rate from the incoming buffer rate. It is undefined
247        whether the time of receiving wl_surface.commit with a new buffer
248        attached, applying the wl_surface state, wl_surface.frame callback
249        trigger, presentation, or any other point in the compositor cycle
250        is used to measure the frame or field times. There is no support
251        for detecting missed or late frames/fields/buffers either, and
252        there is no support whatsoever for cooperating with interlaced
253        compositor output.
254
255        The composited image quality resulting from the use of interlaced
256        buffers is explicitly undefined. A compositor may use elaborate
257        hardware features or software to deinterlace and create progressive
258        output frames from a sequence of interlaced input buffers, or it
259        may produce substandard image quality. However, compositors that
260        cannot guarantee reasonable image quality in all cases are recommended
261        to just reject all interlaced buffers.
262
263        Any argument errors, including non-positive width or height,
264        mismatch between the number of planes and the format, bad
265        format, bad offset or stride, may be indicated by fatal protocol
266        errors: INCOMPLETE, INVALID_FORMAT, INVALID_DIMENSIONS,
267        OUT_OF_BOUNDS.
268
269        Dmabuf import errors in the server that are not obvious client
270        bugs are returned via the 'failed' event as non-fatal. This
271        allows attempting dmabuf sharing and falling back in the client
272        if it fails.
273
274        This request can be sent only once in the object's lifetime, after
275        which the only legal request is destroy. This object should be
276        destroyed after issuing a 'create' request. Attempting to use this
277        object after issuing 'create' raises ALREADY_USED protocol error.
278
279        It is not mandatory to issue 'create'. If a client wants to
280        cancel the buffer creation, it can just destroy this object.
281      </description>
282      <arg name="width" type="int" summary="base plane width in pixels"/>
283      <arg name="height" type="int" summary="base plane height in pixels"/>
284      <arg name="format" type="uint" summary="DRM_FORMAT code"/>
285      <arg name="flags" type="uint" summary="see enum flags"/>
286    </request>
287
288    <event name="created">
289      <description summary="buffer creation succeeded">
290        This event indicates that the attempted buffer creation was
291        successful. It provides the new wl_buffer referencing the dmabuf(s).
292
293        Upon receiving this event, the client should destroy the
294        zlinux_dmabuf_params object.
295      </description>
296      <arg name="buffer" type="new_id" interface="wl_buffer"
297           summary="the newly created wl_buffer"/>
298    </event>
299
300    <event name="failed">
301      <description summary="buffer creation failed">
302        This event indicates that the attempted buffer creation has
303        failed. It usually means that one of the dmabuf constraints
304        has not been fulfilled.
305
306        Upon receiving this event, the client should destroy the
307        zlinux_buffer_params object.
308      </description>
309    </event>
310
311    <request name="create_immed" since="2">
312      <description summary="immediately create a wl_buffer from the given
313                     dmabufs">
314        This asks for immediate creation of a wl_buffer by importing the
315        added dmabufs.
316
317        In case of import success, no event is sent from the server, and the
318        wl_buffer is ready to be used by the client.
319
320        Upon import failure, either of the following may happen, as seen fit
321        by the implementation:
322        - the client is terminated with one of the following fatal protocol
323          errors:
324          - INCOMPLETE, INVALID_FORMAT, INVALID_DIMENSIONS, OUT_OF_BOUNDS,
325            in case of argument errors such as mismatch between the number
326            of planes and the format, bad format, non-positive width or
327            height, or bad offset or stride.
328          - INVALID_WL_BUFFER, in case the cause for failure is unknown or
329            plaform specific.
330        - the server creates an invalid wl_buffer, marks it as failed and
331          sends a 'failed' event to the client. The result of using this
332          invalid wl_buffer as an argument in any request by the client is
333          defined by the compositor implementation.
334
335        This takes the same arguments as a 'create' request, and obeys the
336        same restrictions.
337      </description>
338      <arg name="buffer_id" type="new_id" interface="wl_buffer"
339           summary="id for the newly created wl_buffer"/>
340      <arg name="width" type="int" summary="base plane width in pixels"/>
341      <arg name="height" type="int" summary="base plane height in pixels"/>
342      <arg name="format" type="uint" summary="DRM_FORMAT code"/>
343      <arg name="flags" type="uint" summary="see enum flags"/>
344    </request>
345
346  </interface>
347
348</protocol>
349