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Message-ID: <20170914080650.GA872@bhelgaas-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 03:06:50 -0500 From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> To: Christian König <deathsimple@...afone.de> Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Resizeable PCI BAR support V8 On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 04:59:48PM +0200, Christian König wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is the eighth incarnation of this set of patches. It enables device > drivers to resize and most likely also relocate the PCI BAR of devices > they manage to allow the CPU to access all of the device local memory at once. > > This is very useful for GFX device drivers where the default PCI BAR is only > about 256MB in size for compatibility reasons, but the device easily have > multiple gigabyte of local memory. > > Some changes since the last version: > 1. Rebased on Linus current master tree, going to rebase on 4.13-rc1 as soon as that is out. > 2. Some more documentation on how to use the new functionality in drivers. > 3. Only re-enable decoding when everything looks good. > 4. Rename the new amdgpu function to better match what it is doing. > > Bjorn what's you'r feeling on getting this into 4.14? This seems 99.9% done, but there were some kbuild issues that need to be resolved. Or did I miss the resolution of those? Bjorn
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