[PATCH] nouveau: add coherent BO attribute

[Alexandre Courbot]

On 03/14/2015 04:33 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Op 13-03-15 om 07:27 schreef Alexandre Courbot:
>> Add a flag allowing Nouveau to specify that an object should be coherent
>> at allocation time. This is required for some class of objects like
>> fences which are randomly-accessed by both the CPU and GPU. This flag
>> instructs the kernel driver to make sure the object remains coherent
>> even on architectures for which coherency is not guaranteed by the bus.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
> I don't see a problem with this patch, but similar patches to intel to libdrm have been shot down when the changes weren't in an official kernel yet, so I think this should wait until the change is at least in drm-next. ;-)

Sounds good. I will ping you again once the kernel change reaches -next.