[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/9] drm/i915/context: context switch, and PPGTT params

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Tue Feb 1 19:31:02 CET 2011


On Tue,  1 Feb 2011 10:16:18 -0800
Ben Widawsky <bwidawsk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Adding parameters for userspace to query what features the
> driver/hardware supports. In the future context and ppgtt will always go
> together, but for now we will use hardware contexts without ppgtt since
> there are some issues with ppgtt on the current generation.
> ---

Minor ordering nit pick: this patch should be the last one in the
series, otherwise bisecting across it with a new userspace will be hard
(kernel will come back with "yes I can handle hw contexts" but the code
to support them isn't there yet).

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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