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Oded Gabbay 8bf4889762 drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major
Add a new Kconfig for the accel subsystem. The Kconfig currently
contains only the basic CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL option that will be used to
decide whether to compile the accel registration code. Therefore, the
kconfig option is defined as bool.

The accel code will be compiled as part of drm.ko and will be called
directly from the DRM core code. The reason we compile it as part of
drm.ko and not as a separate module is because of cyclic dependency
between drm.ko and the separate module (if it would have existed).
This is due to the fact that DRM core code calls accel functions and
vice-versa.

The accelerator devices will be exposed to the user space with a new,
dedicated major number - 261.

The accel init function registers the new major number as a char device
and create corresponding sysfs and debugfs root entries, similar to
what is done in DRM init function.

I added a new header called drm_accel.h to include/drm/, that will hold
the prototypes of the drm_accel.c functions. In case CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL
is set to 'N', that header will contain empty inline implementations of
those functions, to allow DRM core code to compile successfully
without dependency on CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL.

I Updated the MAINTAINERS file accordingly with the newly added folder
and I have taken the liberty to appropriate the dri-devel mailing list
and the dri-devel IRC channel for the accel subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Melissa Wen <mwen@igalia.com>
2022-11-22 13:13:51 +02:00
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ABI Merge tag 'drm-intel-gt-next-2022-11-03' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-next 2022-11-04 17:33:34 +10:00
accounting filemap: make the accounting of thrashing more consistent 2022-09-26 19:46:06 -07:00
admin-guide drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major 2022-11-22 13:13:51 +02:00
arc
arm EFI updates for v6.1 2022-10-09 08:56:54 -07:00
arm64 arm64: errata: Add Cortex-A55 to the repeat tlbi list 2022-10-07 14:42:20 +01:00
block Documentation: document ublk user recovery feature 2022-10-18 05:12:26 -07:00
bpf Networking changes for 6.1. 2022-10-04 13:38:03 -07:00
cdrom
core-api - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in 2022-10-10 17:53:04 -07:00
cpu-freq
crypto
dev-tools linux-kselftest-kunit-6.1-rc1-2 2022-10-12 15:01:58 -07:00
devicetree drm-misc-next for 6.2: 2022-11-22 09:21:17 +10:00
doc-guide Rust introduction for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-03 16:39:37 -07:00
driver-api drm-misc-next for 6.2: 2022-10-25 11:42:18 +10:00
fault-injection docs: notifier-error-inject: Correct test's name 2022-10-07 10:32:16 -06:00
fb docs/fb: Document current named modes 2022-11-15 10:07:40 +01:00
features
filesystems A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches 2022-10-13 10:58:32 -07:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide Merge branches 'acpi-misc', 'acpi-tools' and 'acpi-docs' 2022-10-03 20:03:49 +02:00
fpga
gpu drm/fb-helper: Fix missing kerneldoc include 2022-11-08 16:11:13 +01:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (corsair-psu) Add USB id of the new HX1500i psu 2022-10-22 06:59:12 -07:00
i2c docs: i2c: slave-interface: return errno when handle I2C_SLAVE_WRITE_REQUESTED 2022-09-28 21:41:59 +02:00
ia64
iio docs: iio: add documentation for BNO055 driver 2022-09-21 18:42:56 +01:00
images
infiniband
input Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2022-10-09 22:30:23 -07:00
isdn
kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
kernel-hacking
leds
litmus-tests
livepatch
locking Remove duplicate words inside documentation 2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
loongarch
m68k
maintainer
mhi
mips
misc-devices
mm A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches 2022-10-13 10:58:32 -07:00
netlabel
networking Random number generator fixes for Linux 6.1-rc1. 2022-10-16 15:27:07 -07:00
nios2
nvdimm
openrisc
parisc
PCI
pcmcia
peci
power
powerpc powerpc/64s: update cpu selection options 2022-09-28 19:22:10 +10:00
process A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches 2022-10-13 10:58:32 -07:00
RCU There's not a huge amount of activity in the docs tree this time around, 2022-10-03 10:23:32 -07:00
riscv doc: RISC-V: Document that misaligned accesses are supported 2022-10-12 08:58:10 -07:00
rust x86: enable initial Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:45 +02:00
s390 vfio/mdev: embedd struct mdev_parent in the parent data structure 2022-10-04 12:06:58 -06:00
scheduler docs: scheduler: Update new path for the sysctl knobs 2022-09-27 13:21:42 -06:00
scsi
security landlock: Fix documentation style 2022-09-29 18:43:04 +02:00
sh
sound
sparc
sphinx
sphinx-static
spi
staging docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book 2022-09-29 12:55:06 -06:00
target
timers
tools A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches 2022-10-13 10:58:32 -07:00
trace A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches 2022-10-13 10:58:32 -07:00
translations A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches 2022-10-13 10:58:32 -07:00
usb
userspace-api media fixes for v6.1-rc2 2022-10-22 15:30:15 -07:00
virt ARM: 2022-10-11 20:07:44 -07:00
w1 Documentation: W1: minor typo corrections 2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
watchdog
x86 - Get rid of a single ksize() usage 2022-10-04 10:12:08 -07:00
xtensa
.gitignore
arch.rst
atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
Changes
CodingStyle
conf.py There's not a huge amount of activity in the docs tree this time around, 2022-10-03 10:23:32 -07:00
docutils.conf
dontdiff
index.rst Rust introduction for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-03 16:39:37 -07:00
Kconfig
Makefile
memory-barriers.txt
SubmittingPatches
subsystem-apis.rst docs: Rewrite the front page 2022-09-29 12:55:06 -06:00