1 Release 1.5 (2013-11-06)
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4 - Some polishing of the test infrastructure, for details see:
6 http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/09/more-drmi915-testsuite-infrastructure.html
8 - Haswell support for the DPF tool (tools/intel_l3_parity) and other
11 - Stereo/3D support in testdisplay (Damien).
13 - Support for gen7 gpu perf counters in tools/intel_perf_counters (Kenneth).
15 - Improvements to the VBT decoder (Jani).
17 - New tool to read legacy VGA registers (Ville).
19 - New helpers in the test library to help deal with debugfs files and the new
20 display pipe CRC support (Damien).
22 - Introduction of a proper naming convention for all the testcases, see
23 tests/NAMING-CONVENTION.
25 - As usual tons of new testcases and improvements and bugfixes to existing ones.
27 - The testsuite framework itself has gained some regression tests which can be
28 run at compile-time with "make check".
30 - New helpers for the drop_cache kernel interface and use drop_caches(RETIRE) to
31 really make sure the gpu is idle in testcases (Oscar Mateo).
33 Release 1.4 (2013-09-16)
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36 - Integration of the gen4+ assembler (Damien).
38 - Start of a new performance analysis tool from Chris Wilson with front-ends for
39 both X11 and plain kms. This uses the perf subsystem and the gpu performance
40 counter kernel patches from Chris.
42 - New register dumper quick_dump from Ben, with lots of work from Damien. This
43 will superseed intel_reg_dumper for newer platforms (which are not yet
44 released) since it will allow us to automatically generate register dumps from
45 the internal xml register specifications.
47 - Tools to access the pletoria of new indirect register access functions on
50 - Framebuffer contents dumper to debug some of the nastier corruption issues.
51 The advantage here is that this bypasses any userspace drivers and so avoids
52 that the corruptions get magically fixed when taking an X screenshot.
54 - Tons of new testcases. Including subtests we are now at roughly 450 tests!
56 - Improvements to the test framework infrastructure. See
57 http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/08/recent-drmi915-testsuite-improvements.html
60 Release 1.3 (2012-08-27)
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63 - massive improvements to the testsuite
64 - dpf tool for handling l3 remapping on gen7 (Ben)
65 - robustify against wc gtt mappings (Chris)
66 - improvements to the reg_dumper and register read/write tools
69 Release 1.2 (2012-02-09)
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72 - intel_audio_dump improvements (Wu Fengguang)
73 - buildsystem improvements (Gaetan Nadon)
74 - solaris support (Alan Coopersmith)
75 - massive refactoring of testcases and rendercpy extraction
77 - fixed up intel_reg_read/write for platforms needing forcewake (needs a
78 kernel patch which from 3.3 to work on ivb - Ben Widawsky)
80 Release 1.1 (2011-12-24)
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83 Improved testsuite, usable for kernel regression testing!
85 Release 1.0 (2009-04-27)
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89 - miscellaneous userland tools that don't really fit into the 2D driver tree
90 - standalone regression tests for the DRM (make check)
91 - microbenchmarks of the DRM for kernel performance regression testing