Question on git merge patch

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Oct 13 01:20:59 PDT 2011


On Don, 2011-10-13 at 11:04 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote: 
> > From: Michel Dänzer [mailto:michel at daenzer.net]
> > On Mit, 2011-10-12 at 18:05 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:
> > > > From: Michel Dänzer [mailto:michel at daenzer.net]
> > > > On Mit, 2011-10-12 at 17:08 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > From its content, it will do some modification to functions like
> > > > > evergreen_irq_ack(). Actually right now I am developing graphics
> > > > > driver under wec7 and use linux graphics driver as the reference. I
> > > > > want to know how to use this patch.
> > > >
> > > > From gitk, I think you probably mean commit
> > > > 6f34be50bd1bdd2ff3c955940e033a80d05f248a ('drm/radeon/kms: add
> > pageflip
> > > > ioctl support (v3)').
> > > Yup! I mean this patch. How do you find this patch? I have not used
> > > gitk before. You use it to find this patch?
> > 
> > Yes. I recommend getting familiar with gitk (or another similar tool),
> > its UI is unintuitive but highly functional.
> Thanks, Michel. I have installed that UI tool in my linux disk. It
> looks great. Very easy to use it by start. Before I used web page to
> see the diff information. Right now this tool will replace.

Glad you like it. :)


> > > It seems that Alex submitted this patch to dri-devel mail list. Right?
> > > Actually I am not sure what is this patch is used for. Why Alex submit
> > > this big patch here? Why not xorg-driver-ati mail list? :)
> > 
> > Kernel DRM patches are submitted to the dri-devel list, and usually only
> > discussed there.
> Okay. Before I only subscribed xorg-driver-ati mail list. Seems
> sometimes, besides ddx driver, it also talks on kms driver. So if I
> want to submit s question on KMS driver, where is the best place to
> discuss it?

Generally dri-devel. Possibly this list, if it's strictly Radeon
hardware related. But please always choose one list or the other instead
of cross-posting.


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