[Mesa-dev] r600g: hyperz

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jerome,
>>
>> I couldn't open the patch, because freedesktop.org doesn't seem to
>> work for me today, it always times out.
>>
>> Anyway, non-working code shouldn't be merged into Mesa master, because
>> it decreases the quality of the driver and is a pain to maintain. As
>> as I said in another email, merging non-working code on purpose is a
>> very bad idea. Please don't do it.
>>
>> Marek
>
> Code works, no regression, but if you enable hyperz get ready to
> experience lockup, likelyhood depends on what you are doing.
>
> So no i don't consider this a non working code. It does work and
> doesn't regress.

Is it just 6xx/7xx that locks or also evergreen?  Also even if we
don't turn on hyperz, it probably makes sense to always have an htile
buffer bound as the htile cache (and backing htile buffer) is used for
Z/S compression, culling, fast ops, etc. in addition to HiZ/S if a Z
or S buffer is bound.

Alex