[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965: Use the predicate enable bit for conditional rendering without stalling

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 06:59:51 PM Neil Roberts wrote:
> Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> writes:
> 
> > drm-intel-next must have the new software checker turned on, which
> > disallows non-whitelisted register writes (along with libva, so it
> > can't really be enabled upstream yet).
> 
> For what it's worth, I get the EINVAL error even on the stock Fedora 20
> kernel on Haswell (and presumably IvyBridge) so I can only assume the
> software checker is already upstream, unless I'm misunderstanding
> something.
> 
> $ uname -r
> 3.16.7-200.fc20.x86_64
> $ modinfo i915 | grep cmd_parser
> parm: enable_cmd_parser:Enable command parsing [...]
>       (1=enabled [default], 0=disabled) (int)
> $ sudo cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_cmd_parser 
> 1
> 
> If I cat 0 to /sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_cmd_parser then I no
> longer get the EINVAL error.
> 
> - Neil

Huh.  Yeah, I thought they turned it on by default in 3.16, which I don't 
understand at all.  AFAIK the libva issue isn't fixed (or wasn't by then), so 
it sure seems like it would've broken userspace.  Which would be a pretty 
clear kernel policy violation...

I must have the facts wrong, I guess...

--Ken
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