From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wilson Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Mark hardware context support optional Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:41:45 +0100 Message-ID: <275ffc$6o3v42@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> References: <1348581217-396-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> <20120925120414.17ecffa4@bwidawsk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00B09EB99 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:42:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120925120414.17ecffa4@bwidawsk.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Ben Widawsky Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:04:14 -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:53:37 +0100 > Chris Wilson 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