[Nouveau] [PATCH 1/6] make RAM device optional

Alexandre Courbot gnurou at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 23:56:38 PST 2015


On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com> wrote:
>> Having a RAM device does not make sense for chips like GK20A which have
>> no dedicated video memory. The dummy RAM device that we used so far
>> works as a temporary band-aid, but in the long-term it is desirable for
>> the driver to be able to work without any kind of VRAM.
>>
>> This patch adds a few conditionals in places where a RAM device was
>> assumed to be present and allows some more objects to be allocated from
>> the TT domain, allowing Nouveau to handle GPUs for which
>> pfb->ram == NULL.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>  drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c         |  9 ++++++++-
>>  drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c             |  3 +++
>>  drm/nouveau/nv84_fence.c              |  7 +++++--
>>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c |  9 ++++++---
>>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/clk/base.c    |  2 +-
>>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/fb/base.c     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ltc/gf100.c   | 14 ++++++++++----
>>  7 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ltc/gf100.c b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ltc/gf100.c
>> index 8e7cc62..ceaa104 100644
>> --- a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ltc/gf100.c
>> +++ b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ltc/gf100.c
>> @@ -170,8 +174,10 @@ gf100_ltc_init_tag_ram(struct nvkm_fb *pfb, struct nvkm_ltc_priv *priv)
>>         tag_size += tag_align;
>>         tag_size  = (tag_size + 0xfff) >> 12; /* round up */
>>
>> -       ret = nvkm_mm_tail(&pfb->vram, 1, 1, tag_size, tag_size, 1,
>> -                          &priv->tag_ram);
>> +       if (pfb->ram)
>> +               ret = nvkm_mm_tail(&pfb->vram, 1, 1, tag_size, tag_size, 1,
>> +                                  &priv->tag_ram);
>> +       ret = -1;
>
> Was there supposed to be an else somewhere in there?

Yes, there was - thanks!


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