[Nouveau] [PATCH] nouveau: add coherent BO attribute

[Alexandre Courbot]

Re-pinging Marteen on an email address that still exists :P

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com> wrote:
>> On 03/14/2015 04:33 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Op 13-03-15 om 07:27 schreef Alexandre Courbot:
>>>>
>>>> Add a flag allowing Nouveau to specify that an object should be coherent
>>>> at allocation time. This is required for some class of objects like
>>>> fences which are randomly-accessed by both the CPU and GPU. This flag
>>>> instructs the kernel driver to make sure the object remains coherent
>>>> even on architectures for which coherency is not guaranteed by the bus.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> I don't see a problem with this patch, but similar patches to intel to
>>> libdrm have been shot down when the changes weren't in an official kernel
>>> yet, so I think this should wait until the change is at least in drm-next.
>>> ;-)
>>
>>
>> Sounds good. I will ping you again once the kernel change reaches -next.
>
> Hi Marteen,
>
> The kernel change required for this patch is now in -next. Do you
> think we can merge it now?