[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 10/10] drm/i915: kill gen4 gpu reset code

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:17:47 +0200, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> It's busted. Compared to ilk, snb and ivb where I've run the i-g-t
> hangman test in a loop for a few hours, my gm45 never managed to reset
> the gpu. And Chris Wilson confirmed on irc that he's never seen a case
> where the gen4 gpu reset code actually helped.

I remember originally when the hangcheck stuff landed, on a 965gm
running compiz, dragging a window with a bad shader around and seeing a
stutter as it reset the hardware successfully before crashing soon after
(then turning off the hanging plugin and continuing to use the system).
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