[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Mark fastboot as unsafe

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 03:29:57PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Fastboot in its current incarnation assumes that the pfit isn't
> relevatn for the state and that it can be disabled without restarting
> the crtc. Unfortunately that's not the case on gen2/3 - it upsets the
> hw and results in a black screen.
> 
> Worse, the way the current fastboot hack is structure we can't detect
> and work around this in the code, since the fastboot smashes the
> adjusted mode into crtc->mode. Which means the higher levels can't
> correctly figure out that this is a lie and act accordingly.
> 
> Since fastboot is just a tech demo let's mark the module option as
> experimental and close the coresponding reports as wontfix.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84682
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>

Jesse expressed concerns in private about this patch, so I've dropped it
and the other fastboot patch.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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