[Beignet] Haswell issues

[Andi Kleen]

"Zhigang Gong" <zhigang.gong at linux.intel.com> writes:
>> but I don't have the hardware to try it.
> We will do some testing on this. And once we get the exact version, I will submit a
> new patch to give some warn if the user is using an unsupported kernel. As now we
> have better solution than patch kernel manually, I will change the document to suggest
> user to upgrade to a supported kernel rather than patch kernel manually.

It would be better to add something to the kernel interface that can be
probed without relying on the kernel version. The problem with checking
versions is that it'll break if someone backports the fixes to older
kernels, which is not uncommon.

-Andi

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