linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm fixes

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Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:27:01 +0100
From:	Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@...il.com>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:13, Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:58:02 -0800, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > See bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27572
>>
>> Any update on that one?
>
> No, reverting that will cause just another bug elsewhere. I need to
> work out how the gpu is not being flushed with a non-pipelined fence
> change.
>
>> There's that whole "return -EINVAL for
>> I915_PARAM_HAS_RELAXED_FENCING" patch thing?
>
> As it turns out this is a bug in the userspace components of the stack for
> gen2 hardware, with lax kernel side enforcement. Daniel has a fix for both.

Chris, could you point us at the patch? I ask because Daniel left a
comment in bug discussion that we should ignore some patch from him,
and there was no mention of anything else.

I'll gladly test a better fix.
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