Re: [PATCH 5.15 100/262] drm/amd/display: move FPU associated DSC code to DML folder

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 07 2022 - 12:22:51 EST


On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 05:19:20PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
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> > Subject: [PATCH 5.15 100/262] drm/amd/display: move FPU associated DSC
> > code to DML folder
> >
> > From: Qingqing Zhuo <qingqing.zhuo@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit d738db6883df3e3c513f9e777c842262693f951b ]
> >
> > [Why & How]
> > As part of the FPU isolation work documented in
> > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatc
> > hwork.freedesktop.org%2Fseries%2F93042%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Calex
> > ander.deucher%40amd.com%7Cf4f4d5bfb9f74edfb8b108da001e6d8f%7C3dd
> > 8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637822427968538535%7CUn
> > known%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6
> > Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=2Mm24%2FPkRkih%2BToJ
> > oBGx2wpeth0Z0Rv3dG77D06fHbw%3D&amp;reserved=0, isolate code that
> > uses FPU in DSC to DML, where all FPU code should locate.
> >
> > This change does not refactor any functions but move code around.
> >
>
> This is not a really bug fix, just general reworking of the FP code. I don't know that this is stable material.

I think it's needed for a follow-on patch in this series, right?