Re: [git pull] drm fixes

Indan Zupancic
2011-02-24T09:19:07Z

On Thu, February 24, 2011 09:27, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:13, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:58:02 -0800, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > See bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27572
>>>
>>> Any update on that one?
>>
>> No, reverting that will cause just another bug elsewhere. I need to
>> work out how the gpu is not being flushed with a non-pipelined fence
>> change.
>>
>>> There's that whole "return -EINVAL for
>>> I915_PARAM_HAS_RELAXED_FENCING" patch thing?
>>
>> As it turns out this is a bug in the userspace components of the stack for
>> gen2 hardware, with lax kernel side enforcement. Daniel has a fix for both.
>
> Chris, could you point us at the patch? I ask because Daniel left a
> comment in bug discussion that we should ignore some patch from him,
> and there was no mention of anything else.
>
> I'll gladly test a better fix.