Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/dmc: Accept symbolic link in firmware name

chris
2016-07-11T13:50:40Z

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:24:50PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> On ma, 2016-07-11 at 13:55 +0100, chris@chris-wilson.co.uk wrote:
> > And then you get random changes in the firmare whilst bisecting the
> > kernel.
>
> What do you mean random? During bisecting we want to load the firmware
> version that was used with a particular commit. With a symlink pointing
> to the wrong firmware file for a given commit, we'd fail loading the
> firmware due to the version check and hide/introduce bugs for that
> commit.

No. You want to be changing exactly one variable, which means leaving
the firmware constant. The firmware should be side-ways compatible for
everything with the same minor version (thus resolvable from the same
symlink), right?
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre