[Mesa-dev] i965: Haswell has been broken for over 5 days

[Eric Anholt]

Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> writes:

>>>
>>>> Haswell has been broken on master for a surprisingly long time, since
>>>> commit
>>>> 1dfea559c3 (Thu May 2 11:27:37 2013 -0700). Reverting that commit fixed
>>>> it
>>>> for me.
>>>>
>>>> If it doesn't get properly fixed by the 7th day, I'd like to see the
>>>> guilty
>>>> patch reverted. A full week is too long for a platform under active
>>>> development
>>>> to be down.
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, it was broken for 2 working days before I caught the bug myself
>>> and posted a patch, which got (negative) review feedback at midnight.
>>> QA caught the bug shortly after I posted the patch.  I think you have
>>> unreasonable expectations of turnaround time here for something that
>>> wasn't even bisected and reported.
>>
>>
>> I admit I may have an unreasonable expectation here sourced in frustration.
>> The frustration, though, isn't a good excuse to be unreasonable.
>
> Also HSW isn't hw the rest of the world has to worry about, whereas
> SNB being broken for 3D at startup on every distro matters more. It
> might not matter in your reporting and bonus structure but it sure as
> hell matters to users :-)

Which is why I would have refused to revert it anyway.  Released
hardware trumps prerelease hardware.
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