[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Enable fastset by default, except on initial modeset

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 17-12-18 15:38, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 03:23:14PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As discussed a while ago, I would like to see us enable fastboot by
>> default, starting with Skylake / GEN9 and newer hardware, so that we can
>> avoid an unnecessary modeset at boot and move to a truely flickerfree boot.
>>
>> During our previous discussion about this Maarten mentioned that a first
>> step would be to get this patch from him upstream. So I'm hereby
>> resubmitting it, with a small fix. Hopefully the CI will like it better
>> this time (if not we will need to investigate) and once this passes CI
>> I hope this can be reviewed quickly and we can get this upstream.
>>
>> I will also be sending out a follow-up patch which actually makes fastboot
>> the default on GEN9 and newer, I will mark that as RFC for now since based
>> on our previous discussion this patch should be landed first.
> 
> The infoframe precompute/check stuff didn't land yet. I think we want
> those in before we enable this thing.

Hmm, what is the status of those changes? Unless those are almost ready
to go I'm not convinced that delaying this patch for those is a good idea,
I have the feeling there will always be one more thing to wait for if we
go that route.

Do you have a link to the latest version in patchwork?  Anything I can
do to help these move along ?

Regards,

Hans