Re: [PATCH] nouveau: add coherent BO attribute

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On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/14/2015 04:33 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Op 13-03-15 om 07:27 schreef Alexandre Courbot:
>>>
>>> Add a flag allowing Nouveau to specify that an object should be coherent
>>> at allocation time. This is required for some class of objects like
>>> fences which are randomly-accessed by both the CPU and GPU. This flag
>>> instructs the kernel driver to make sure the object remains coherent
>>> even on architectures for which coherency is not guaranteed by the bus.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I don't see a problem with this patch, but similar patches to intel to
>> libdrm have been shot down when the changes weren't in an official kernel
>> yet, so I think this should wait until the change is at least in drm-next.
>> ;-)
>
>
> Sounds good. I will ping you again once the kernel change reaches -next.

Hi Marteen,

The kernel change required for this patch is now in -next. Do you
think we can merge it now?
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