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Re: Large new drm driver

From Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Large new drm driver
Date 2017-05-02 04:40 +0200
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On 2 May 2017 at 11:31, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Just so you don't get a large suprise:
>
> $ git diff --dirstat v4.11..next-20170501
>    3.9% arch/
>   13.5% drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/vega10/DC/
>    6.0% drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/vega10/GC/
>   23.5% drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/vega10/NBIO/
>    7.5% drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/vega10/
>    4.9% drivers/gpu/drm/
>    4.6% drivers/net/
>    5.8% drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/
>    3.0% drivers/staging/media/
>    4.5% drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/
>   12.6% drivers/
>
> There are some very large include files in the new drm driver.
>
> wc -l over all the files in
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/vega10/:

We've had register header files like this on a number of occasions
before, not sure why it warrants a mention now.

It's just the public header files for the new Vega AMD GPUs,
as opposed to a whole new driver.

AMD release the validated headers so open source developers
don't have to go hunting for registers.

Dave.

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Large new drm driver Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> - 2017-05-02 03:40 +0200
  Re: Large new drm driver Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 04:40 +0200
    Re: Large new drm driver Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> - 2017-05-02 05:00 +0200

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