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

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Mar 7 17:50:42 UTC 2018


On 2018-03-07 06:38 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Samuel Li <samuel.li at amd.com> wrote:
>>
>> Why so complicated? If old user space compatibility is required, just use sg_display=0.
> 
> It will always just work in that case and we can adjust for the
> optimal scenario by default in all cases without requiring the user to
> set misc parameters to tune their setup that may break in the future
> or hide bugs because a user sets it and forgets it.

Right. I don't agree it's all that complicated anyway, we do this sort
of thing all the time, it also makes our lives easier down the road.


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