This is possible with the new force parameter in do_switch. As stated in that patch, the goal is to get a real context stored at the time of initialization. References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52429 Tested-by: Guang A Yang <guang.a.yang at intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c index 3db84e2..eed00da 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c @@ -229,6 +229,10 @@ static int create_default_context(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv) if (ret) goto err_unpin; + ret = do_switch(ctx, true); + if (ret) + goto err_unpin; + DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("Default HW context loaded\n"); return 0; -- 1.7.11.4