Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/cnl: Remove alpha_support protection

Joonas Lahtinen
2018-02-15T12:14:59Z

Quoting Rodrigo Vivi (2018-02-14 22:42:05)
> We now have a stable cnl on our CI and it seems mostly
> green without big risks of blank screen or anything
> blowing up on linux installations in the future.
>
> As a reminder i915.alpha_support was created to protect
> future linux installation's iso images that might contain a
> kernel from the enabling time of the new platform. Without this
> protection most of linux installation was recommending
> nomodeset option during installation that was getting stick
> there after installation.
>
> Specifically, alpha support says nothing about the development
> state of the hardware, and everything about the state of the
> driver in a kernel release.
>
> This is semantically no different from the old
> preliminary_hw_support flag, but the old one was all too often
> interpreted as (preliminary hw) support instead of the intended
> (preliminary) hw support, and it was misleading for everyone.
> Hence the rename.
>
> v2: Fix the typos and include more history about the parameter
> rename on commit message. (Jani)
>
> Reference: https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/fi-cnl-y3.html
> Cc: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@intel.com>
> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
> Cc: Jani Saarinen <jani.saarinen@intel.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Acked-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Regards, Joonas