[PATCH 4/4] drm/amdkfd: Implement image tiling mode support

[Oded Gabbay]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>
> On 16/08/17 09:35 AM, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> > On 2017-08-15 06:20 AM, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> >> I prefer to do it incrementally, to avoid very large patch-sets which
> >> usually end up in longer cycles of review-fix, which causes you more
> >> pain because internal development continues during this time and you
> >> need to keep everything synchronized. If you do it in small pieces,
> >> there is more chance it will get to upstream faster and then you can
> >> cross it off your list permanently and no longer worry about it not
> >> being synchronized with internal development.
> >>
> >> If you are talking about the current patch-set (you actually sent 2
> >> patch-sets), then once you rebase them on the branches I mentioned,
> >> they are more or less good to go (except from very small fixes we
> >> talked about). If you can do it during this week, I think we can make
> >> it for the 4.14 merge window.
> >>
> >> Does that make sense ?
> >
> > Sounds good. I'm hoping to get a bit more into 4.14. We'll see how it
> > goes. I've probably been told before but forgot: What's Dave Airlie's
> > deadline for accepting patches into 4.14?
>
> The deadline is usually around -rc6 of the previous cycle, so for 4.14
> it might be the end of this week (keep in mind that Dave's in Australia,
> so his work day is over when yours starts).
>
Yeah, Michel is correct. If its 1 or 2 trivial patches I can probably
get it in even during -rc7 or start of merge window, but for this
large patch-set -rc5/6 is the safer way to go.

Oded

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