[Intel-gfx] [Freedreno] [PATCH 01/10] include: Move ascii85 functions from i915 to linux/ascii85.h

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Mon Apr 16 17:52:59 UTC 2018


Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:

> Quoting Jordan Crouse (2018-04-05 23:06:53)
>> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:00:47PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
>> > The i915 DRM driver very cleverly used ascii85 encoding for their
>> > GPU state file. Move the encode functions to a general header file to
>> > support other drivers that might be interested in the same
>> > functionality.
>> 
>> In a previous version of this patch, Chris asked what tree I wanted this applied
>> to, and the answer is: I'm not sure?  I'm hoping that Rob will be cool with
>> picking the rest up for msm-next for 4.18 but I'm okay with putting this
>> particular patch wherever it is easiest for the maintainers.
>
> We are a bit late to sneak it into the 4.17 drm base via i915. I don't
> anticipate any problems (for i915) with this patch going in through
> msm-next, so happy to have it land there and percolate back to i915 3
> months later.

I'd love to have it in drm-misc-next, so I can build a similar hang dump
interface for vc5.  But most importantly, I'd like to have it somewhere
soon.
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