On 08/11/16 05:31 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On 7 November 2016 at 19:21, Christian König <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: Christian König <[email protected]>
>>
>> We don't need to use the PCI BAR on APUs. This allows us to access
>> the full VRAM directly without being limited by the BAR size.
> 
> I'm feeling coherency issues, has this approach been validated with the hw 
> team?

I raised this concern internally as well, but the response indicated
that it should be fine. Apparently x86 defines that write-combined
writes complete before any access to UC memory (such as writing to an
MMIO register or doorbell to submit a GPU operation).


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