Re: [PATCH 07/11] drm/amdgpu: rename GART to SYSVM

[zhoucm1 <david1.zhou-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>]

I have no strong opinion with that, this patch is Acked-by: Chunming 
Zhou <david1.zhou@amd.com>

On 2017年07月04日 15:43, Christian König wrote:
>> Maybe we just need rename GART functions to SYSVM.
> That is essentially what I've did.
>
> In recent discussion we a couple of times the problem that we need to 
> distinguish between the system VM and the GART/GTT domain from TTM.
>
> See starting with R6xx I think we used the system VM to implement the 
> old GART functionality from AGP days.
>
> The name stayed the same over the years, but we ran into the problem 
> that we wanted to reduce the size of the system VM to save VRAM while 
> still having a large GTT domain in TTM to map all system memory at the 
> same time.
>
> So that the TTM parts stay the same is intentional.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
> Am 04.07.2017 um 05:13 schrieb Zhou, David(ChunMing):
>> Distinguishing system vm and general vm is a good idea, but I'm not 
>> sure about renaming GTT to sysvm part, especially TTM TT stays there. 
>> Maybe we just need rename GART functions to SYSVM.
>>
>> Regards,
>> David Zhou
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Christian K?nig
>> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 5:45 PM
>> To: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
>> Subject: [PATCH 07/11] drm/amdgpu: rename GART to SYSVM
>>
>> From: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
>>
>> Just mass rename all names related to the hardware GART/GTT functions 
>> to SYSVM.
>>
>> The name of symbols related to the TTM TT domain stay the same.
>>
>> This should improve the distinction between the two.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
>> ---
>

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