On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 09:22:44AM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > By the request of Ken, and Chris, I've added support for HW contexts to > Ironlake. This is not the first time I've done this, but I think I'll > skip the somewhat ugly history on the matter. > > Our existing support for Ironlake sets up 2 contexts, the powerctx, and > the renderctx. The former is stored in special memory on GEN6+, and the > latter is *extremely* similar to the way we use default context on GEN6+ > (ie. if users don't opt in to contexts, they are using it even if they > don't realize). > > The patch series first tries to tie that renderctx into our existing > i915 context code, and then rips out the old renderctx. Powerctx is left > alone since it still really is a special case. It's a neat series, killing the special case for renderctx is a big improvement. > Finally, in the series I reenable rc6 on ILK. I've never had an issue > with this on my ILK, but I recommend anyone testing on it who sees > issues to try to disable it via modparam firstly. Optimist. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
