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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:56:43 +0100
From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@amd.com>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 04:15:42PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
> Generally I agree with the issues you describe in the current design.
> One task in our 2015 workplan is to change the whole method amdkfd is
> loaded, so it can independently load at any time, regardless of the order of
> loading between it and radeon and amd_iommu_v2. To reach that goal, I assume
> we will have to use some form of deferred probing.

Sounds good.

> However, for the moment, this is the best band-aid I could think of, and
> choosing between this band-aid or no band-aid at all, I prefer the former
> any day.

Looking at the patches, the dependency is documented in the Makefile. I
guess that's fine as a temporary band-aid.

Thierry

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