[Intel-gfx] [RFC v1] Data port coherency control for UMDs.

[Joonas Lahtinen]

Quoting Dunajski, Bartosz (2018-03-30 12:00:51)
> I think the adoption is not a problem here.

Adoption is important for fulfilling the DRM subsystem requirements for
merging new kernel uAPI that I referred to previously.

So do we have some timeline for any distro picking up the new driver?

Regards, Joonas

> If driver can query that patch is active on the specific setup, new capabilities will be always reported to the user.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Quoting Dunajski, Bartosz (2018-03-26 12:46:13)
> > Here is pull request with patch usage:
> > https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/pull/29
> > 
> > This patch is required to control data port coherency depending on incoming workload into OpenCL API (fine-grain SVM requirement).
> 
> Thank you for correcting the process.
> 
> The original question however remains unanswered, how is it looking for the adoption of the new driver in distros?
> 
> I was not able to find much by searching online, but by looking at the sources, I'd assume requiring a custom version of LLVM would be something to get rid of.
> 
> Regards, Joonas