Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove pre-production pooled-EU w/a for Broxton

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> That seems like a reasonably policy.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> index 57dfaf04d819..0be79cf993fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> @@ -833,6 +833,11 @@ static void i915_workqueues_cleanup(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>   * We don't keep the workarounds for pre-production hardware, so we expect our
>   * driver to fail on these machines in one way or another. A little warning on
>   * dmesg may help both the user and the bug triagers.
> + *
> + * Our policy for removing workarounds is to keep the current gen workarounds
> + * as a guide to the bring-up of the next gen (workarounds have a habit of
> + * persisting). Anything older than that should be removed along with the
> + * complications they introduce.
>   */

Ack for putting that in a patch and merging.

BR,
Jani.

>  static void intel_detect_preproduction_hw(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>  {
>

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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