[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915:: Disable FBC on SandyBridge

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:17:34PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Enabling FBC is causing the BLT ring to run between 10-100x slower than
> normal and frequently lockup. The interim solution is disable FBC once
> more until we know why.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

Iirc fbc isn't really worth it power-wise on snb and we don't implement it on
ivb. So shouldn't we just disable it completely? Eugeni, any opinions - I
think you're most up to speed on power saving figures for snb?
-Daniel
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> index 9fa342e..f972a09 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> @@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ static void intel_update_fbc(struct drm_device *dev)
>  	if (enable_fbc < 0) {
>  		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("fbc set to per-chip default\n");
>  		enable_fbc = 1;
> -		if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen <= 5)
> +		if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen <= 6)
>  			enable_fbc = 0;
>  	}
>  	if (!enable_fbc) {
> -- 
> 1.7.7.2
> 
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