[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/icl: Remove alpha support protection

[Rodrigo Vivi]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 02:11:53PM -0800, José Roberto de Souza wrote:
> Now with the watermarks fixes merged, Icelake is stable enough to
> have the alpha support protection flag removed.
> 
> We have a few ICL machines in our CI and it is mostly green with
> failures in tests that will not impact future linux installations.
> Also there is no warnings, errors, flickering or any visual defects
> while doing ordinary tasks like browsing and editing documents in a
> dual monitor setup.
> 
> As a reminder i915.alpha_support was created to protect
> future linux installation's iso images that might contain a
> kernel from the enabling time of the new platform. Without this
> protection most of linux installation was recommending
> nomodeset option during installation that was getting stick
> there after installation.
> 
> Specifically, alpha support says nothing about the development
> state of the hardware, and everything about the state of the
> driver in a kernel release.
> 
> This is semantically no different from the old
> preliminary_hw_support flag, but the old one was all too often
> interpreted as (preliminary hw) support instead of the intended
> (preliminary) hw support, and it was misleading for everyone.
> Hence the rename.
> 
> Reference: https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/fi-icl-y.html

This view is great. It is unfortunate we cannot save this and
this link will be invalid in few runs.

> Reference: https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/shard-iclb.html

This picture doesn't help, but taking your word, and the BAT results
and quoting Jani Saarinen: "Nice improvement here what comes to passes..."

Old: f2-icl-u         total:262  pass:107  dwarn:98  dfail:0   fail:1   skip:55  time:429s
f2-icl-u         total:263  pass:222  dwarn:9   dfail:0   fail:3   skip:29  time:339s

Old: f2-icl-y         total:262  pass:105  dwarn:98  dfail:0   fail:4   skip:54  time:430s
f2-icl-y         total:476  pass:225  dwarn:7   dfail:0   fail:4   skip:240 time:470s

Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>

> Cc: James Ausmus <james.ausmus at intel.com>
> Cc: Jani Saarinen <jani.saarinen at intel.com>
> Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> index c42c5ccf38fe..527bd1ceb9ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> @@ -658,7 +658,6 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_cannonlake_info = {
>  static const struct intel_device_info intel_icelake_11_info = {
>  	GEN11_FEATURES,
>  	PLATFORM(INTEL_ICELAKE),
> -	.is_alpha_support = 1,
>  	.engine_mask =
>  		BIT(RCS0) | BIT(BCS0) | BIT(VECS0) | BIT(VCS0) | BIT(VCS2),
>  };
> -- 
> 2.21.0
> 
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