[igt-dev] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] RFC: Make igts for cross-driver stuff mandatory?

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 18:51, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is just to collect feedback on this idea, and see whether the
> overall dri-devel community stands on all this. I think the past few
> cross-vendor uapi extensions all came with igts attached, and
> personally I think there's lots of value in having them: A
> cross-vendor interface isn't useful if every driver implements it
> slightly differently.
>
> I think there's 2 questions here:
>
> - Do we want to make such testcases mandatory?

Yes I think if at all practical it probably makes sense to have some
mandatory test cases for all cross-vendor features, or features that
might become cross vendor in the future.

>
> - If yes, are we there yet, or is there something crucially missing
>   still?

I think the does igt build in all the places needed is the main one,
I've no idea what a baseline IGT test run looks like on non-intel hw,
how useful is it?

Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>