[PATCH] nouveau: add coherent BO attribute

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Op 15-05-15 om 09:11 schreef Alexandre Courbot:
> Re-pinging Marteen on an email address that still exists :P
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Hi Marteen,
>>
>> The kernel change required for this patch is now in -next. Do you
>> think we can merge it now?
I think it would be ok to merge now.

~Maarten