[PATCH 3/3] drm/amdgpu: CIK support is no longer experimental

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On 07.04.2017 22:15, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> Change the wording of the CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK option to indicate
> that it's no longer experimental.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig
> index f3b6df8..029e3fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig
> @@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ config DRM_AMDGPU_CIK
>  	bool "Enable amdgpu support for CIK parts"
>  	depends on DRM_AMDGPU
>  	help
> -	  Choose this option if you want to enable experimental support
> -	  for CIK asics.
> +	  Choose this option if you want to enable support for CIK asics.
>
> -	  CIK is already supported in radeon.  CIK support in amdgpu
> -	  is for experimentation and testing.
> +	  If you choose No here, CIK ASICs will be supported by the
> +	  radeon driver, as in previous kernel versions. Depending on
> +	  your choice you will need different user mode (Mesa, X.org)
> +	  drivers to support accelerated graphics on CIK.

The last part is a bit misleading: while you do need different DDXes, 
the same Mesa driver (radeonsi) will work with both the radeon and the 
amdgpu kernel module for CIK. FWIW, the same is true for SI, although 
older versions of Mesa might stumble when run on the amdgpu kernel module.

Cheers,
Nicolai


>
>  config DRM_AMDGPU_USERPTR
>  	bool "Always enable userptr write support"
>


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