Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: Move iommu/ before gpu/ in Makefile

2014-12-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Oded Gabbay oded.gab...@amd.com wrote: Hello Linus, Dave Airlie asked me to send this patch to you for review. I'm not entirely happy about the fix, since we generally *should* order things by the different init-levels, but we've done the link order thing

Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: Move iommu/ before gpu/ in Makefile

2014-12-23 Thread Oded Gabbay
Hello Linus, Dave Airlie asked me to send this patch to you for review. See link below for cover-letter for this patch that explains the background a bit more: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-December/074452.html Thanks, Oded On 12/22/2014 01:07 PM, Oded Gabbay

[PATCH 1/2] drivers: Move iommu/ before gpu/ in Makefile

2014-12-22 Thread Oded Gabbay
AMD GPU devices are dependent on AMD IOMMU controller functionality to allow the GPU to access a process's virtual memory address space, without the need for pinning the memory. This patch changes the order in the drivers makefile, so iommu/ subsystem is linked before gpu/ subsystem. That way, if