[Intel-gfx] [RFC] i915: make the probe asynchronous

[Feng Tang]

Hi Jani,

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:18:46AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2018, Feng Tang <feng.tang at intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jani,
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 10:41:04AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >> On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, Feng Tang <feng.tang at intel.com> wrote:
> >> > i915 driver's probe is one of the longest of pci devices, which takes
> >> > about hundreds of microseconds or more, make the probe async will help
> >> > much on the kernel boot time, as different driver's probe can go async.
> >> >
> >> > This have been limited verified on several platforms of mine, don't
> >> > know if it will have other side effects and drawbacks, so I would
> >> > throw it out for reviews and comments, thanks
> >> 
> >> See the previous discussion [1].
> >
> > Thanks! But cannot access the link :( 
> >
> > I've googled, but without luck, is there other link? or some other
> > keywords so that I can google with?
> 
> Works for me, here's another:
> 
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180323083048.13327-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

thanks, this works now.

IIUC, you are waiting for the HDA audio driver to first handle the
i915 sync probel case?

Thanks,
Feng