[PATCH] drm/amdkfd: enable heavy-weight TLB flush on Arcturus

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 21:02:22 UTC 2022


On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 06:14, Eric Huang <jinhuieric.huang at amd.com> wrote:
>
> I understand Alex's concern. I think usually we only check the version
> when a feature is only available in a specific version, and other
> version or newer version doesn't have.
>
> In case of FW fix, we assume the driver and FWs have to be synchronous.
> If we have driver backward compatibility for FWs, there must be a lot of
> redundant codes for FW version check. So this patch and SDMA fix will be
> pushed into ROCm 5.1 release branch at the same time.
>

Please remove that assumption from everwhere.

If you have released a fw into linux-firmware then you need to support
it going forward, even if it means printing something in dmesg
recommending people upgrade for features.

Dave.


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