On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 06:58:06PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:20:59AM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > > Certain fusing options allow customers to fuse off the South Display > > which would result in hangs when reading/writing to those registers. In > > addition, certain CPU display registers (like backlight) may actually > > invoke writes to South Display. > > > > This patch series enables our code to run displayless which can allow > > the GEN hardware to be an offload GPU and not have a display hooked up. > > > > This patch series hasn't been tested. A pre-cleaned version was tested, > > and did work. I'm hoping Jeff (in the CC) can test this latest version. > > This mode of operation should be supported by xf86-video-intel-2.21.4. > -Chris Yes, but for us it doesn't hard hang when we get it wrong, so I'd really like to get it tested on the real hardware. To a lesser extent, making sure the subvendor/subdevice matching works would also be nice. > > -- > Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
