1 - Allow register access to succeed if i915 is loaded but debugfs isn't found
2 (i.e. nomodeset is used)
4 Release 1.6 (2014-XX-YY)
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7 - Changes to support Broadwell in the test suite. (Ben, Damien, et al.)
9 - Updated (now working again!) Android support from Oscar Mateo.
11 - Test coverage through i-g-t is now officially an integral part of any drm/i915
12 feature work and also for bugfixes. For more details see:
14 http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/11/testing-requirements-for-drmi915.html
16 - Fix the gen4asm build depency handling, now that the assembler is included in
19 - Improve the cairo object lifetime management of the kmstest helpers (Chris).
21 Release 1.5 (2013-11-06)
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24 - Some polishing of the test infrastructure, for details see:
26 http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/09/more-drmi915-testsuite-infrastructure.html
28 - Haswell support for the DPF tool (tools/intel_l3_parity) and other
31 - Stereo/3D support in testdisplay (Damien).
33 - Support for gen7 gpu perf counters in tools/intel_perf_counters (Kenneth).
35 - Improvements to the VBT decoder (Jani).
37 - New tool to read legacy VGA registers (Ville).
39 - New helpers in the test library to help deal with debugfs files and the new
40 display pipe CRC support (Damien).
42 - Introduction of a proper naming convention for all the testcases, see
43 tests/NAMING-CONVENTION.
45 - As usual tons of new testcases and improvements and bugfixes to existing ones.
47 - The testsuite framework itself has gained some regression tests which can be
48 run at compile-time with "make check".
50 - New helpers for the drop_cache kernel interface and use drop_caches(RETIRE) to
51 really make sure the gpu is idle in testcases (Oscar Mateo).
53 Release 1.4 (2013-09-16)
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56 - Integration of the gen4+ assembler (Damien).
58 - Start of a new performance analysis tool from Chris Wilson with front-ends for
59 both X11 and plain kms. This uses the perf subsystem and the gpu performance
60 counter kernel patches from Chris.
62 - New register dumper quick_dump from Ben, with lots of work from Damien. This
63 will superseed intel_reg_dumper for newer platforms (which are not yet
64 released) since it will allow us to automatically generate register dumps from
65 the internal xml register specifications.
67 - Tools to access the pletoria of new indirect register access functions on
70 - Framebuffer contents dumper to debug some of the nastier corruption issues.
71 The advantage here is that this bypasses any userspace drivers and so avoids
72 that the corruptions get magically fixed when taking an X screenshot.
74 - Tons of new testcases. Including subtests we are now at roughly 450 tests!
76 - Improvements to the test framework infrastructure. See
77 http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/08/recent-drmi915-testsuite-improvements.html
80 Release 1.3 (2012-08-27)
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83 - massive improvements to the testsuite
84 - dpf tool for handling l3 remapping on gen7 (Ben)
85 - robustify against wc gtt mappings (Chris)
86 - improvements to the reg_dumper and register read/write tools
89 Release 1.2 (2012-02-09)
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92 - intel_audio_dump improvements (Wu Fengguang)
93 - buildsystem improvements (Gaetan Nadon)
94 - solaris support (Alan Coopersmith)
95 - massive refactoring of testcases and rendercpy extraction
97 - fixed up intel_reg_read/write for platforms needing forcewake (needs a
98 kernel patch which from 3.3 to work on ivb - Ben Widawsky)
100 Release 1.1 (2011-12-24)
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103 Improved testsuite, usable for kernel regression testing!
105 Release 1.0 (2009-04-27)
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109 - miscellaneous userland tools that don't really fit into the 2D driver tree
110 - standalone regression tests for the DRM (make check)
111 - microbenchmarks of the DRM for kernel performance regression testing