[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/7] drm/i915: fix intel_init_power_wells

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Sat Jan 26 17:54:45 CET 2013


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:59:11PM -0200, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> From: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com>
> 
> The current code was wrong in many different ways, so this is a full
> rewrite. We don't have "different power wells for different parts of
> the GPU", we have a single power well, but we have multiple registers
> that can be used to request enabling/disabling the power well. So
> let's be a good citizen and only use the register we're suppose to
> use, except when we're loading the driver, where we clear the request
> made by the BIOS.
> 
> If any of the registers is requesting the power well to be enabled, it
> will be enabled. If none of the registers is requesting the power well
> to be enabled, it will be disabled.
> 
> For now we're just forcing the power well to be enabled, but in the
> next commits we'll change this.
> 
> V2:
>   - Remove debug messages that could be misleading due to possible
>     race conditions with KVMr, Debug and BIOS.
>   - Don't wait on disabling: after a conversaion with a hardware
>     engineer we discovered that the "restriction" on bit 31 is just
>     for the "enable" case, and we don't even need to wait on the
>     "disable" case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com>

Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
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