On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:43:22PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:40:54PM +0100, Damien Lespiau wrote: > > I was fedup with having to run my tests as root and not being able to > > use my usual setup for tests that only exercise the GT part of the GPU. > > > > Render nodes to the rescue! > > I think usually this is a bad idea except for pretty isolated proof of > concept kind of things. Mostly intel-gpu-tools is testing our kernel > driver, and therefore running without a reboot anyway is sort of > unusual. Hum? I fail to see the link. It should be strickly equivalent, with the added bonus that you can write and execute a test as a normal user. Actually, as Daniel said on IRC, we'd most likely want to run quite a few of the tests with both a fd from card0 and a fd from the render node to ensure that we can function correctly from the render node -- Damien _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
