Re: DRM pull for v5.3-rc1

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Jul 15 2019 - 13:57:37 EST


On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 07:53:06PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> > So, I'll put it on a topic and send you two a note next week to decide
> > if you want to merge it or not. I'm really unclear how nouveau's and
> > AMD's patchflow works..
>
> DRM is 2-level for pretty much everything. First it lands in a driver
> tree (or a collectiv of drivers, like in drm-misc). Then those send
> pull requests to drm.git for integration. Busy trees do that every 1-2
> weeks (e.g. amdgpu), slower trees once per merge window (e.g. nouveau)
> for drm-next, similar for drm-fixes.

The DRM part seems logical - it is how the AMD GPU and nouveau git
trees trees work that I don't know. I heard that neither could take in
a stable topic branch?

Jason