Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 2/4] drm/i915: Add provision to extend Golden context batch

2015-07-20 Thread Siluvery, Arun
On 17/07/2015 21:03, Chris Wilson wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:13:32PM +0100, Arun Siluvery wrote: The Golden batch carries 3D state at the beginning so that HW starts with a known state. It is carried as a binary blob which is auto-generated from source. The idea was it would be easier to

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 2/4] drm/i915: Add provision to extend Golden context batch

2015-07-17 Thread Chris Wilson
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:13:32PM +0100, Arun Siluvery wrote: > The Golden batch carries 3D state at the beginning so that HW starts with > a known state. It is carried as a binary blob which is auto-generated from > source. The idea was it would be easier to maintain and keep the complexity > out

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 2/4] drm/i915: Add provision to extend Golden context batch

2015-07-17 Thread Arun Siluvery
The Golden batch carries 3D state at the beginning so that HW starts with a known state. It is carried as a binary blob which is auto-generated from source. The idea was it would be easier to maintain and keep the complexity out of the kernel which makes sense as we don't really touch it. However i