On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:12:40PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote: > On ma, 2016-03-07 at 12:05 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > > If the firmware is generic and has a run-anywhere mode, enable it rather > > than completely failing on unknown HW revisions. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> > > Cc: Damien Lespiau <[email protected]> > > Cc: Imre Deak <[email protected]> > > Cc: Sunil Kamath <[email protected]> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> > > Cc: Animesh Manna <[email protected]> > > Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]> > > Looks ok: > Reviewed-by: Imre Deak <[email protected]> > > > --- > > This is probably stable@ material since it could allow future hw to > > just work. > > Existing platforms will select the generic firmware version already if > one is provided in the image, this change will just allow us not to > provide a stepping info table for new platforms. So not sure why it's > @stable material.
Because we are already hitting the scenario where there are new platforms that do not match the hardcoded set of steppings and error out i.e. we have failed to futureproof the code. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
