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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix the computation of required fb size for pipe
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:10:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140402071044.GI7225@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140402065818.GM7314@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:58:18AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 03:11:21PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > The computation of required framebuffer size in
> > 
> > commit d978ef14456a38034f6c0e94a794129501f89200
> > Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> > Date:   Fri Mar 7 08:57:51 2014 -0800
> > 
> >     drm/i915: Wrap the preallocated BIOS framebuffer and preserve for KMS fbcon v12
> > 
> > is too optimistic, and would rely on the invariant fb being
> > reconstructed to exactly fit each pipe (and probably ignore hardware
> > limits). Instead, we want to compute the upper bound on what the display
> > engine will access and ensure that is within the inherited framebuffer.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> 
> Ping. The code is just waiting to explode.

I kinda hoped it would magically get reviewed by Jesse. Thanks for the
ping, patch is picked up for -fixes.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-02  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-20 15:11 [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix the computation of required fb size for pipe Chris Wilson
2014-04-02  6:58 ` Chris Wilson
2014-04-02  7:10   ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2014-04-02 15:03     ` Jesse Barnes

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