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Message-ID: <20220414134321.GD2120790@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:43:21 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "Wang, Zhi A" <zhi.a.wang@...el.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
"Vivi, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com>,
"intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
"intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org"
<intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: refactor the i915 GVT support and move to the modern mdev API v3
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 04:40:11PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >> >> git clone https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux -b for-christoph
> >> >
> >> > There are alot of extra commits on there - is it possible to base this
> >> > straight on rc1 not on some kind of existing DRM tree?
> >> >
> >> > Why did you choose drm/i915/fbc: Call intel_fbc_activate() directly
> >> > from frontbuffer flush as a base?
> >> >
> >> > Jason
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi Jason:
> >>
> >> I updated the branch. You can check if those are what you are expecting. :)
> >
> > This is better, except for the first commit:
> >
> > [DON'T PULL] drm/i915/dmc: split out dmc registers to a separate file
> > THIS PATCH WILL GO THROUGH DRM-INTEL-NEXT TO UPSTREAM
> >
> > Clean up the massive i915_reg.h a bit with this isolated set of
> > registers.
> >
> > v2: Remove stale comment (Lucas)
> >
> > Clean the commit message and send that as a proper PR to
> > drm-intel-next, then everything else is OK.
>
> It's already in drm-intel-next, I guess the problem is basing the branch
> on something that doesn't have it. I'd probably just base everything
> cleanly on -rc1, and whoever does the merge between the two will need to
> account for the missing include in the result. It's just adding one line
> in the right place.
That makes sense to me, especially if you can do the merge fixup
internally in DRM.
So drop the '[DONT PULL]' commit and send a PR to the next DRM tree -
when that is confirmed send the same PR to vfio,
Thanks,
Jason
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