From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Mark hardware context support optional
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:41:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <275ffc$6o3v42@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120925120414.17ecffa4@bwidawsk.net>
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:04:14 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:53:37 +0100
> Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > "Enable hardware context support for userspace (default: disabled))");
>
> You've found one platform this doesn't work on, and a bunch of features
> rely on this, and yet we default to disabled? That seems a bit harsh to
> me.
Exactly, it's meant to be harsh. In the limited testing that hw contexts
have been exposed to, we have a number of hangs for which they are
implicated. Therefore they are not safe to enable yet... Unless you can
prove otherwise. :-p
-Chris
--
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-25 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-25 13:53 [PATCH] drm/i915: Mark hardware context support optional Chris Wilson
2012-09-25 14:25 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2012-09-25 19:04 ` Ben Widawsky
2012-09-25 19:41 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2012-09-25 20:35 ` Ben Widawsky
2012-09-25 20:46 ` Chris Wilson
2012-09-26 5:48 ` Daniel Vetter
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