[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/18] drm/i915: Rename ring flush functions

Damien Lespiau damien.lespiau at intel.com
Tue May 7 19:28:01 CEST 2013


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 05:59:16PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> Historically we considered the render ring to have special flush
> semantics and everything else to fall under a more general umbrella.
> Probably by coincidence more than anything we decided to make the bsd
> ring have the default *other* flush. As the new vebox ring exposes, the
> bsd ring is actually the weird one. Doing this allows us to call
> gen6_ring_flush for the vebox because calling blt_ring_flush would be
> weird...
> 
> This patch should have no functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>

Reviewed-by: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau at intel.com>

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Damien



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