Em Sáb, 2015-08-15 às 09:24 +0100, Chris Wilson escreveu:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 06:34:20PM -0300, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> > This reverts commit 0ffb0ff283cca16f72caf29c44496d83b0c291fb.
> >
> > Technology has evolved and now we have eDP panels with 3200x1800
> > resolution. In the meantime, the BIOS guys didn't change the
> > default
> > 32mb for stolen memory. And we can't assume our users will be able
> > to
> > increase the default stolen memory size to more than 32mb - I'm not
> > even sure all BIOSes allow that.
> >
> > So just the fbcon buffer alone eats 22mb of my stolen memroy, and
> > due
> > to the BDW/SKL restriction of not using the last 8mb of stolen
> > memory,
> > all that's left for FBC is 2mb! Since fbcon is not the coolest
> > feature
> > ever, I think it's better to save our precious stolen resource to
> > FBC
> > and the other guys.
> >
> > Besides, neither the original commit message nor the review
> > comments
> > showed any arguments in favor of actually allocating fbcon from
> > stolen.
>
> Pardon?
pzanoni@panetone:~/git/kernel/kernel$ git show
0ffb0ff283cca16f72caf29c44496d83b0c291fb | head -n 12
commit 0ffb0ff283cca16f72caf29c44496d83b0c291fb
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 15 11:32:27 2012 +0000
drm/i915: Allocate fbcon from stolen memory
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fb.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fb.c
pzanoni@panetone:~/git/kernel/kernel$
And the only review I could find was:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2012
-October/021025.html
> -Chris
>
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