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authorJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2016-10-31 13:18:28 +0300
committerJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2016-11-14 16:33:27 +0300
commitc007fb4a38eef473937b8aa513039a4823edc995 (patch)
tree10ba930b61c8d21ec254cd8b33cb1924beff600c /drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig
parentd2ad3ae4ecf5825a57bb8b1adf4eca2e25adcf63 (diff)
downloadlinux-c007fb4a38eef473937b8aa513039a4823edc995.tar.xz
drm/i915: rename preliminary_hw_support to alpha_support
The term "preliminary hardware support" has always caused confusion both among users and developers. It has always been about preliminary driver support for new hardware, and not so much about preliminary hardware. Of course, initially both the software and hardware are in early stages, but the distinction becomes more clear when the user picks up production hardware and an older kernel to go with it, with just the early support we had for the hardware at the time the kernel was released. The user has to specifically enable the alpha quality *driver* support for the hardware in that specific kernel version. Rename preliminary_hw_support to alpha_support to emphasize that the module parameter, config option, and flag are about software, not about hardware. Improve the language in help texts and debug logging as well. This appears to be a good time to do the change, as there are currently no platforms with preliminary^W alpha support. Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1477909108-18696-1-git-send-email-jani.nikula@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig
index beed5c1d2cd7..5ddde7349fbd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig
@@ -36,15 +36,20 @@ config DRM_I915
If "M" is selected, the module will be called i915.
-config DRM_I915_PRELIMINARY_HW_SUPPORT
- bool "Enable preliminary support for prerelease Intel hardware by default"
+config DRM_I915_ALPHA_SUPPORT
+ bool "Enable alpha quality support for new Intel hardware by default"
depends on DRM_I915
default n
help
- Choose this option if you have prerelease Intel hardware and want the
- i915 driver to support it by default. You can enable such support at
- runtime with the module option i915.preliminary_hw_support=1; this
- option changes the default for that module option.
+ Choose this option if you have new Intel hardware and want to enable
+ the alpha quality i915 driver support for the hardware in this kernel
+ version. You can also enable the support at runtime using the module
+ parameter i915.alpha_support=1; this option changes the default for
+ that module parameter.
+
+ It is recommended to upgrade to a kernel version with proper support
+ as soon as it is available. Generally fixes for platforms with alpha
+ support are not backported to older kernels.
If in doubt, say "N".