[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/6] drm/i915: Allow the module to load even if we fail to setup rings

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 03:11:40PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wed,  2 Apr 2014 16:36:09 +0100
> Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Even without enabling the ringbuffers to allow command execution, we can
> > still control the display engines to enable modesetting. So make the
> > ringbuffer initialization failure soft, and mark the GPU as wedged
> > instead.
> > 
> > v2: Only treat an EIO from ring initialisation as a soft failure, and
> > abort module load for any other failure, such as allocation failures.

> Will we still have some loud spewing into the log in this case?  If so,

We have the usual *ERROR*, but we lack an indication that the GPU is now
wedged.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre