[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 17/24] i965: Replace HW_REG with ARF/GRF.

Kenneth Graunke kenneth at whitecape.org
Wed Nov 11 15:10:17 PST 2015


On Monday, November 02, 2015 04:29:27 PM Matt Turner wrote:
> HW_REGs are (were!) kind of awful. If the file was HW_REG, you had to
> look at different fields for type, abs, negate, writemask, swizzle, and
> a second file. They also caused annoying problems like immediate sources
> being considered scheduling barriers (commit 6148e94e2) and other such
> nonsense.
> 
> Instead use ARF/GRF/MRF for fixed registers in those files.

Eee.  I thought we were going to use FIXED_GRF, at least in the
short-term, as we have several years of history (and possibly
outstanding patches) that say "GRF" to mean "VGRF".  At least
for a while, until people learn to type VGRF...
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