[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/9] displayless PCH

[Ben Widawsky]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 06:58:06PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:20:59AM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > Certain fusing options allow customers to fuse off the South Display
> > which would result in hangs when reading/writing to those registers. In
> > addition, certain CPU display registers (like backlight) may actually
> > invoke writes to South Display.
> > 
> > This patch series enables our code to run displayless which can allow
> > the GEN hardware to be an offload GPU and not have a display hooked up.
> > 
> > This patch series hasn't been tested. A pre-cleaned version was tested,
> > and did work. I'm hoping Jeff (in the CC) can test this latest version.
> 
> This mode of operation should be supported by xf86-video-intel-2.21.4.
> -Chris

Yes, but for us it doesn't hard hang when we get it wrong, so I'd really
like to get it tested on the real hardware. To a lesser extent, making
sure the subvendor/subdevice matching works would also be nice.

> 
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> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center