[PATCH] drm/i915: fix corruptions on i8xx due to relaxed fencing

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Feb 22 09:42:33 PST 2011


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 06:32:11PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Giving that lack of documentation, could you put some more comments in the code?
> so that nobody cleans out that "strange workaround" in 6 monthes...

It's not a workaround, it's how the hw works. If we'd add the explanation
from the changelog everytime there's a little and/or badly documented hw
oddity, you won't be able to read the code anymore.

Use git blame and dig into the history - drm/* is full of such stuff.
-Daniel
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