Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] drm/i915: add create_context2 ioctl

Chris Wilson
2016-08-15T11:56:06Z

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 02:48:04PM +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
>
> Add i915_gem_context_create2_ioctl for passing flags
> (e.g. SVM) when creating a context.
>
> v2: check the pad on create_context
> v3: rebase
> v4: i915_dma is no more. create_gvt needs flags
>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (v1)
> Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>

Considering we can use deferred ppgtt creation and have setparam do we
need a new create ioctl just to set a flag?
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre