From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, "Zanoni,
Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>,
Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: Make intel_detect_preproduction_hw easier to extend
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:45:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poja2aun.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170126133545.GF19521@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 03:18:28PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
>> > As we add new generations, we should keep detecting new system
>> > development platforms that were temporarily enabled (via
>> > "i915.alpha_support") and now superseded by production systems. To make
>> > it easier to add more platforms, split the if into a series of logical
>> > operations.
>>
>> Please be careful not to conflate preproduction/early hardware with
>> alpha support in the driver. They are two distinct things. The former is
>> purely about hardware. The latter is purely about software.
>
> "temporarily enabled to facilitate development and now superseded..." ?
Yes, that's fine. A released kernel with alpha support for a given
platform will still only have alpha support for production versions of
said platform.
BR,
Jani.
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-26 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-26 12:50 [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: Make intel_detect_preproduction_hw easier to extend Chris Wilson
2017-01-26 12:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Mark the kernel as tainted if we fail the preproduction check Chris Wilson
2017-01-26 13:26 ` Jani Nikula
2017-01-26 12:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Add early BXT sdv to the list of preproduction machines Chris Wilson
2017-01-26 13:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: Make intel_detect_preproduction_hw easier to extend Ville Syrjälä
2017-01-26 13:06 ` Paulo Zanoni
2017-01-26 13:16 ` Chris Wilson
2017-01-26 13:21 ` Chris Wilson
2017-01-26 13:18 ` Jani Nikula
2017-01-26 13:35 ` Chris Wilson
2017-01-26 13:45 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2017-01-26 22:54 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: warning for series starting with [1/3] " Patchwork
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