[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: Allow the module to load even if we fail to setup rings
Mateo Lozano, Oscar
oscar.mateo at intel.com
Tue Apr 22 14:57:37 CEST 2014
> Subject: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: Allow the module to load even if we
> fail to setup rings
>
> 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.
>
> v3: Add an *ERROR* prior to declaring the GPU wedged so that it stands out
> like a sore thumb in the logs
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo at intel.com>
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