[RFC PATCH 0/3] Propose new struct drm_mem_region

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2019-07-30 12:45 p.m., Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:24 PM Koenig, Christian
> <Christian.Koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>> Am 30.07.19 um 11:38 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 08:45:57AM +0000, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> 
>>>>> +#define DRM_MEM_SYSTEM     0
>>>>> +#define DRM_MEM_STOLEN     1
>>>> I think we need a better naming for that.
>>>>
>>>> STOLEN sounds way to much like stolen VRAM for integrated GPUs, but at
>>>> least for TTM this is the system memory currently GPU accessible.
>>> Yup this is wrong, for i915 we use this as stolen, for ttm it's the gpu
>>> translation table window into system memory. Not the same thing at all.
>>
>> Thought so. The closest I have in mind is GTT, but everything else works
>> as well.
> 
> Would your GPU_MAPPED above work for TT? I think we'll also need
> STOLEN, I'm even hearing noises that there's going to be stolen for
> discrete vram for us ...

Could i915 use DRM_MEM_PRIV for stolen? Or is there other hardware with
something similar?


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