[pull] radeon drm-next-3.17

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Aug 5 23:35:50 PDT 2014


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Christian König <deathsimple at vodafone.de> wrote:
>>> Christian wrote some patches to validate the interfaces, but I'm not sure
>>> he ever sent them out.  We haven't yet done a full implementation in the
>>> usermode drivers to take advantage of this yet.
>>
>> Well right now I've consistently rejected all patches that don't yet
>> come with the full thing (libdrm, usermode drivers and tests for it
>> all as not ready). And I do that at least once per week since we have
>> blob userspace separate from mesa, too. So if we toss that rule
>> overboard (and my understanding is that Dave's been fairly strict
>> here) I'll look rather bad. As in really, really bad.
>>
>> I strongly prefer that userptr gets postponed until it's ready. Dave?
>
>
> That's just my fault. Wanted to wait with the mesa patches till we have the
> kernel interface accepted.
>
> I've just send them out,

Ah, seen them now, thanks. Personally I prefer if kernel and usermode
parts get reviewed in parallel. But that's mostly since we have 2
separate teams. So no objection to userptr from my side any more ;-)

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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