Re: [PATCH] drm/xe: Generate oob before compiling anything

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 09:56:05AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>On Thu, 11 Apr 2024, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> wrote:
>>> Instead of keep adding more dependencies as WAs are needed in different
>>> places of the driver, just add a rule with all the objects so the code
>>> generation happens before anything else.
>>
>>What's "oob" and why is it used unexplained everywhere?
>
> from xe_wa.c kernel-doc:
>
>   * platform. There are some basic categories of workarounds, depending on
>   * how/when they are applied:
>
>    ( ... )
>   * - Other/OOB:  There are WAs that, due to their nature, cannot be applied from    
>   *   a central place. Those are peppered around the rest of the code, as needed.    
>   *   Workarounds related to the display IP are the main example.                    
>
> This can certainly be improved and the link to wa_oob.c made. But it's
> not that it was not explained anywhere :)

Yeah, but... what does OOB mean? Out-of-band?

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel