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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Mark fastboot as unsafe
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 18:41:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141107174116.GH6135@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415111397-6604-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 03:29:57PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Fastboot in its current incarnation assumes that the pfit isn't
> relevatn for the state and that it can be disabled without restarting
> the crtc. Unfortunately that's not the case on gen2/3 - it upsets the
> hw and results in a black screen.
> 
> Worse, the way the current fastboot hack is structure we can't detect
> and work around this in the code, since the fastboot smashes the
> adjusted mode into crtc->mode. Which means the higher levels can't
> correctly figure out that this is a lie and act accordingly.
> 
> Since fastboot is just a tech demo let's mark the module option as
> experimental and close the coresponding reports as wontfix.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84682
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

Jesse expressed concerns in private about this patch, so I've dropped it
and the other fastboot patch.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-07 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-04 14:29 [PATCH] drm/i915: Mark fastboot as unsafe Daniel Vetter
2014-11-04 23:03 ` Paul Menzel
2014-11-07 17:41 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2014-11-10 18:06   ` Jesse Barnes

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