[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove unsafe i915.enable_rc6
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Mar 30 16:10:55 UTC 2017
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:06:17AM -0700, Kelvin Gardiner wrote:
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> On 25/03/17 07:23, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >It has been many years since the last confirmed sighting (and fix) of an
> >RC6 related bug (usually a system hang). Remove the parameter to stop
> >users from setting dangerous values.
>
> This type of option can be useful for early debug and testing. Maybe
> it can be moved to a Kconfig option.
That's a reasonable idea to allow overriding any and all (ideally) of
intel_device_info. But usually a test branch will enable a feature it is
using (as the first patch when testing, and then as the last patch when
upstreaming).
-Chris
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