[PATCH 1/2] drm/amdgpu: Enable scatter gather display support

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Tue Mar 6 17:51:41 UTC 2018


On 2018-03-06 06:44 PM, Christian König wrote:
> Am 06.03.2018 um 18:22 schrieb Li, Samuel:
>>
>>> addition to that I agree with Michel that the module parameter is
>>> overkill.
>> That I already explained. Currently SG display feature needs to
>> provide options for all kinds of use cases. All amd drivers so far
>> provides options, and the default configuration is actually to
>> allocate everything from GTT when possible.
> 
> That isn't job of the kernel to have this parameter. Saying that we
> should probably add a DDX and/or environment option to control that.

Why would we need that? It's the kernel driver's job to handle this as
needed.


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