[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: consider user preference when pinning for SG display

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Tue May 22 10:04:28 UTC 2018


[SNIP]
>>> It's not that low resolution these days (normally the smallest native
>>> resolution of all connected displays, i.e. generally >= 1920x1080), i.e.
>>> on the order of ~10 MB of VRAM that can't be used for anything else.
>> Hui, what? Isn't the fb freed after X takes over?
> Nope, that isn't possible (not even un-pinning it from VRAM), because
> the console layer can try accessing the buffer at any time from any context.

Ok, that at least explains why people are wanting to get rid of it so 
desperately :)

Thanks,
Christian.


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