[Freedreno] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/10] include: Move ascii85 functions from i915 to linux/ascii85.h

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:52:59AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Quoting Jordan Crouse (2018-04-05 23:06:53)
> >> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:00:47PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> >> > The i915 DRM driver very cleverly used ascii85 encoding for their
> >> > GPU state file. Move the encode functions to a general header file to
> >> > support other drivers that might be interested in the same
> >> > functionality.
> >> 
> >> In a previous version of this patch, Chris asked what tree I wanted this applied
> >> to, and the answer is: I'm not sure?  I'm hoping that Rob will be cool with
> >> picking the rest up for msm-next for 4.18 but I'm okay with putting this
> >> particular patch wherever it is easiest for the maintainers.
> >
> > We are a bit late to sneak it into the 4.17 drm base via i915. I don't
> > anticipate any problems (for i915) with this patch going in through
> > msm-next, so happy to have it land there and percolate back to i915 3
> > months later.
> 
> I'd love to have it in drm-misc-next, so I can build a similar hang dump
> interface for vc5.  But most importantly, I'd like to have it somewhere
> soon.

Maarten will likely send the first pull for drm-misc-next at the end of
this week. So if you just push it there today, there's no hold-up for msm
(or anyone else) really.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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