[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 2/5] drm/i915: refactor VLV IOSF sideband accessors to use one helper

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Wed May 22 17:34:51 CEST 2013


On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:36:17 +0300
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> wrote:

> Both the intel_dpio_{read,write} and valleyview_{punit,nc}_{read,write}
> use the IOSF sideband interface. They access the same registers and do
> mostly the same stuff, but no shared code. There are even duplicate
> register defines for the same registers. Both have locking, but the
> former use dpio_lock and the latter rps.hw_lock. It's racy.

Nice catch... The docs for each came from different places with no
indication that the req register was re-used, but it's obvious now of
course.

Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>



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