On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:35:13PM +0300, Ville Syrj?l? wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:07:03PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Especially vesafb likes to map everything as uc- (yikes), and if that
> > mapping hangs around still while we try to map the gtt as wc the
> > kernel will downgrade our request to uc-, resulting in abyssal
> > performance.
> >
> > Unfortunately we can't do this as early as readon does (i.e. as the
> > first thing we do when initializing the hw) because our fb/mmio space
> > region moves around on a per-gen basis. So I've had to move it below
> > the gtt initialization, but that seems to work, too. The important
> > thing is that we do this before we set up the gtt wc mapping.
> >
> > Now an altogether different question is why people compile their
> > kernels with vesafb enabled, but I guess making things just work isn't
> > bad per se ...
> >
> > Reported-and-tested-by: "Kilarski, Bernard R" <bernard.r.kilarski at intel.com>
> > Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> > index 262a74d..6be01c8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> > @@ -1401,6 +1401,25 @@ i915_mtrr_setup(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, unsigned long base,
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +static void i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> > +{
> > + struct apertures_struct *ap;
> > + struct pci_dev *pdev = dev_priv->dev->pdev;
> > + bool primary = false;
> > +
> > + ap = alloc_apertures(1);
> > + ap->ranges[0].base = dev_priv->dev->agp->base;
> > + ap->ranges[0].size =
> > + dev_priv->mm.gtt->gtt_mappable_entries << PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > + primary = pdev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].flags & IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW;
> > +#endif
> > +
> > + remove_conflicting_framebuffers(ap, "radeondrmfb", primary);
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Nice disguise :)
Meh, failure to git add :( I'll fix it up with the other thing Jani
noticed.
-Daniel
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