On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse at gmail.com> wrote:
> So i am facing a dilema regarding tiling on radeonsi. Given that we now > have a fixed table of tiling mode this put more pressure on the kernel > userspace api. I see either 2 solutions. > > Enforce kernel to set at fixed index in the table best tiling mode for > given gpu for given format, such as DEPTH32_2D_4AA at index 4, or > COLOR_SCANOUT_2D at index 13 ... that way kernel can still adapt the tile > mode array value. Note that this match the design behind the tile mode > index being that there is a limited number of useful tile mode combination > and for each surface format (depth/color/macro tile/micro/tile) there is a > best one. > Second solution is to add an ioctl to compute mipmap information in kernel > (pitch alignment slice size ...) based on format, size of the surface. > Well that one can also be slightly modified to not strictly enfore index association with surface format/type preference. > > Some might argue that we could just export the table content to userspace, > but that would loose information and possibly froze the tile mode table > forever as API. The information we loose is what index match to prefered > surface format/type combination. And the tile mode might be considered API > as if kernel ever change what userspace expect then we might break some > userspace. > > > Thought, idea ? > > Cheers, > Jerome > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20130402/a86439ec/attachment.html>
