From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Disable the BLT on pre-production SNB hardware
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:05:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120709180522.GB5349@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liisc2id.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net>
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:39:38AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:
>
> > It never quite worked despite the numerous workarounds, yet I still see
> > people trying to use this hardware and filing bug reports. As we no
> > longer even try to implement the workarounds, since 6a233c78878
> > (drm/i915/ringbuffer: kill snb blt workaround), simply disable the ring.
> >
> > v2: Add a message to inform the user about the limited capabilities of
> > their pre-production hardware.
>
> Where by "performance will be degraded" we mean "GL won't work". :)
>
> Still, better than just trying to blindly continue on.
>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-05 20:01 [PATCH] drm/i915: Disable the BLT on pre-production SNB hardware Chris Wilson
2012-07-05 21:57 ` Eric Anholt
2012-07-05 22:27 ` Chris Wilson
2012-07-05 22:49 ` Chris Wilson
2012-07-09 16:39 ` Eric Anholt
2012-07-09 18:05 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
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