[PATCH] drm/xe: Generate oob before compiling anything

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 05:39:20PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 09:56:05AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>>On Thu, 11 Apr 2024, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com> wrote:
>>>> Instead of keep adding more dependencies as WAs are needed in different
>>>> places of the driver, just add a rule with all the objects so the code
>>>> generation happens before anything else.
>>>
>>>What's "oob" and why is it used unexplained everywhere?
>>
>> from xe_wa.c kernel-doc:
>>
>>   * platform. There are some basic categories of workarounds, depending on
>>   * how/when they are applied:
>>
>>    ( ... )
>>   * - Other/OOB:  There are WAs that, due to their nature, cannot be applied from
>>   *   a central place. Those are peppered around the rest of the code, as needed.
>>   *   Workarounds related to the display IP are the main example.
>>
>> This can certainly be improved and the link to wa_oob.c made. But it's
>> not that it was not explained anywhere :)
>
>Yeah, but... what does OOB mean? Out-of-band?

yes, that's correct :)

Lucas De Marchi

>
>BR,
>Jani.
>
>-- 
>Jani Nikula, Intel