Re: [PATCH v2] drm: enable render-nodes by default

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:49:42PM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> On 03/20/2014 04:34 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 03:59:17PM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> >> On 03/20/2014 03:36 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >>> In any case this is not a render node issue and there is no reasons to force
> >>> full VRAM eviction or anything like that.
> >> This comment suggests you haven't read the discussion fully.
> >>
> >> VRAM eviction was discussed in the context of legacy nodes.
> >>
> >> This is a render node issue because with legacy nodes you can work
> >> around insufficient command checking.
> >> With render nodes you can't.
> > On radeon you can not abuse the GPU period legacy node or not. My comment
> > was about the fact that this is a driver issue and not a render node issue.
> > I would consider driver that allow to abuse the GPU block to access any
> > memory as broken no matter if we are talking about legacy or new render
> > node.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jérôme
> >
> 
> Great. Then I assume you don't have an issue with not enabling
> render-nodes for those broken drivers,
> (or at least a sysfs property or something similar flagging those device
> nodes as broken)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> 

Yes, broken driver should not have render node, at leadt in my view.

Cheers,
Jérôme
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