On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 02:11:53PM -0800, José Roberto de Souza wrote: > Now with the watermarks fixes merged, Icelake is stable enough to > have the alpha support protection flag removed. > > We have a few ICL machines in our CI and it is mostly green with > failures in tests that will not impact future linux installations. > Also there is no warnings, errors, flickering or any visual defects > while doing ordinary tasks like browsing and editing documents in a > dual monitor setup. > > 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. > > Reference: https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/fi-icl-y.html This view is great. It is unfortunate we cannot save this and this link will be invalid in few runs. > Reference: https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/shard-iclb.html This picture doesn't help, but taking your word, and the BAT results and quoting Jani Saarinen: "Nice improvement here what comes to passes..." Old: f2-icl-u total:262 pass:107 dwarn:98 dfail:0 fail:1 skip:55 time:429s f2-icl-u total:263 pass:222 dwarn:9 dfail:0 fail:3 skip:29 time:339s Old: f2-icl-y total:262 pass:105 dwarn:98 dfail:0 fail:4 skip:54 time:430s f2-icl-y total:476 pass:225 dwarn:7 dfail:0 fail:4 skip:240 time:470s Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jani Saarinen <jani.saarinen@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c > index c42c5ccf38fe..527bd1ceb9ac 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c > @@ -658,7 +658,6 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_cannonlake_info = { > static const struct intel_device_info intel_icelake_11_info = { > GEN11_FEATURES, > PLATFORM(INTEL_ICELAKE), > - .is_alpha_support = 1, > .engine_mask = > BIT(RCS0) | BIT(BCS0) | BIT(VECS0) | BIT(VCS0) | BIT(VCS2), > }; > -- > 2.21.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Intel-gfx mailing list > Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
