[Intel-xe] [PATCH] drm/doc/rfc/xe: No STAGING in drm.

Rodrigo Vivi rodrigo.vivi at intel.com
Mon May 22 19:57:12 UTC 2023


We are not using the STAGING inside drm and the uAPI needs to be
in the acceptable form before we get merged upstream.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2023051029-overspend-sherry-1b85@gregkh/
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay at kernel.org>
Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast at intel.com>
Cc: Luis Strano <luis.strano at intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
---
 Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst
index 2516fe141db6..8524095a54bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst
@@ -67,11 +67,8 @@ platforms.
 
 When the time comes for Xe, the protection will be lifted on Xe and kept in i915.
 
-Xe driver will be protected with both STAGING Kconfig and force_probe. Changes in
-the uAPI are expected while the driver is behind these protections. STAGING will
-be removed when the driver uAPI gets to a mature state where we can guarantee the
-‘no regression’ rule. Then force_probe will be lifted only for future platforms
-that will be productized with Xe driver, but not with i915.
+Xe driver will be protected with force_probe, which will be lifted only for
+future platforms that will be productized with Xe driver, but not with i915.
 
 Xe – Pre-Merge Goals
 ====================
-- 
2.39.2



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