[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Remove the MI_FLUSH_ENABLE setting.

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:50:05AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> We have always been using the wrong bit -- it's bit 12.  However, the
> bit also doesn't do anything -- hardware has always accepted the
> MI_FLUSH command even when it was specced not to.
> 
> Given that there is only one MI_FLUSH emitted in all of the driver
> stack on gen6+ (in i965_video.c of the 2d driver, and it should be
> using other code to do its flush instead), just remove the MI_FLUSH
> enable instead of trying to fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>

The other thing is that I've just tested the bit11 | bit12 patch from Ben
on my ivb, and it resulted in a nice system death, like setting bit12 on
snb. So whoever wrote that piece of bspec didn't talk with whomever
implemented it ...

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
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