[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/bdw: Don't allow the FBC base to be 0

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Fri May 2 15:00:25 CEST 2014


On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:38:11AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:19:27AM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:47:54PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > > "Restriction :
> > > The offset must be greater than 4K bytes, avoiding the first 4KB of
> > > stolen memory."
> > 
> > Isn't this a more generic issue that we must avoid the first 4k? If so
> > I think we should just reserve the first 4k permanently at driver init
> > time.
> 
> What? On many machines the vga framebuffer is allocated from offset 0. I
> think some explanation is in order.

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Ville Syrjälä
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