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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Add the predicate source registers to the register whitelist
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:26:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141111152650.GC25711@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415386826-18648-1-git-send-email-neil@linux.intel.com>

On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 07:00:26PM +0000, Neil Roberts wrote:
> The predicate source registers are needed to implement conditional
> rendering without stalling. The two source registers are used to load
> the previous values of the PS_DEPTH_COUNT register saved from
> PIPE_CONTROL commands. These can then be compared and used to set the
> predicate enable bit via the MI_PREDICATE command.
> 
> The command parser version number is increased to 2 to make it easier
> to detect the new functionality in user space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Here is a v2 of the patch that also updates the command parser version
> to make it easier to detect whether we can use the register in Mesa.
> I have posted a second version of the Mesa patch which uses this here:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2014-November/070362.html
> 
> This was suggested by Glenn Kennard.

Ok, I've merged this one, since that means you at least won't get an
-EINVAL. But you can't yet enable the feature in mesa since it's still
no-opped out. Let's hope that v3 actually starts granting rights (but
please don't encode that in any merge mesa patch before it's official in
the kernel, Dave Airlie _will_ revert it even if it breaks the build) and
that this happens soon.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-11 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-07 15:34 [PATCH] drm/i915: Add the predicate source registers to the register whitelist Neil Roberts
2014-11-07 16:34 ` Volkin, Bradley D
2014-11-07 19:00 ` [PATCH v2] " Neil Roberts
2014-11-11 15:26   ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2015-01-09 16:41     ` Neil Roberts
2015-01-12 23:00       ` Daniel Vetter
2014-11-07 19:33 ` [PATCH] " Kenneth Graunke

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