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

[Chad Versace]

On 05/08/2013 09:57 AM, Eric Anholt wrote:
> 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.

Strong point. When framed with that statement, my original message looks extremely
foolish, doesn't it?