[Intel-gfx] [RFC PATCH 00/11] i915 HW context support

[Adam Jackson]

On 2/14/12 4:09 PM, Ben Widawsky wrote:

> The IOCTLs defined here may also be used with ppgtt (real ppgtt) but the
> interface may be insufficient for that. The contexts do provide a
>

A... what?

Series looks reasonable to me.  The one thing that makes me nervous is 
4/11 mentioning the BIOS, which honestly seems like an insane thing to 
let your BIOS have _any_ say in, but then Intel sure does like to give 
the BIOS a chance to make the OS less functional.  The code in 7/11 
effectively limits things to between 4k and 1M; does that actually make 
sense?  I can't imagine wanting to allocate only 4k if it turns out we'd 
always need at least (say) 32k.

I have admittedly not read any of the docs on how this is meant to work, 
apologies if that'd answer this.

- ajax