Re: [PATCH 5/5] drm/i915: Fix error capture on BYT/BDW

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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:31:04PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:31:08PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > The other issue is the existing method doesn't rely as much on proper
> > request handling, ie. this could be more resilient to driver bugs. I
> > kind of want to keep both...
> 
> Actually I think it is. Part of the process of reading an error dump is
> tying together the registers with what is captured. If they are
> inconsistent, we know that the driver/capture is buggy. What happens in
> the real world is that the GPU executes something completely different
> than the batch buffer anyway...
> -Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Recapping IRC conversation - Chris is sending a patch to fix this
problem with his solution.

-- 
Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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