[RFC] Using DC in amdgpu for upcoming GPU

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:27:27AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 07:54:54AM +0000, Bridgman, John wrote:
> > Yep, good point. We have tended to stay a bit behind bleeding edge because our primary tasks so far have been:
> > 
> > 
> > 1. Support enterprise distros (with old kernels) via the hybrid driver
> > (AMDGPU-PRO), where the closer to upstream we get the more of a gap we
> > have to paper over with KCL code
> 
> Hm, I thought resonable enterprise distros roll their drm core forward to
> the very latest upstream fairly often, so it shouldn't be too bad? Fixing
> this completely requires that you upstream your pre-production hw support
> early enough that by the time it ships its the backport is already in a
> realeased enterprise distro upgrade. But then adding bugfixes on top
> should be doable.

Or just put an entire statically linked copy of the corresponding drm core
into your dkms. A bit horrible, but iirc it's been done before.
-Daniel
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