On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 4:32 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:50 AM Zhou, David(ChunMing)
> <david1.z...@amd.com> wrote:
> >
> > Make igt for cross-driver, I think you should rename it first, not an intel 
> > specific. NO company wants their employee working on other company stuff.
> > You can rename it to DGT(drm graphics test), and published following  
> > libdrm, or directly merge to libdrm, then everyone  can use it and develop 
> > it in same page, which is only my personal opinion.
>
> We renamed it ot  IGT gpu tools, that was even enough for ARM folks.
> If this is seriously what AMD expects before considering, I'm not sure
> what to say.
>
> Alex, Christian, is this the official AMD stance that you can't touch
> stuff because of the letter i?

We don't have any restrictions.

Alex

> -Daniel
>
>
> > Regards,
> > David
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dri-devel <dri-devel-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of 
> > > Eric
> > > Anholt
> > > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:36 AM
> > > To: Sean Paul <s...@poorly.run>; Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>
> > > Cc: IGT development <igt-...@lists.freedesktop.org>; Intel Graphics
> > > Development <intel-...@lists.freedesktop.org>; DRI Development <dri-
> > > de...@lists.freedesktop.org>; amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
> > > Subject: Re: [igt-dev] [PATCH] RFC: Make igts for cross-driver stuff
> > > mandatory?
> > >
> > > Sean Paul <s...@poorly.run> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:50:49AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >> This is just to collect feedback on this idea, and see whether the
> > > >> overall dri-devel community stands on all this. I think the past few
> > > >> cross-vendor uapi extensions all came with igts attached, and
> > > >> personally I think there's lots of value in having them: A
> > > >> cross-vendor interface isn't useful if every driver implements it
> > > >> slightly differently.
> > > >>
> > > >> I think there's 2 questions here:
> > > >>
> > > >> - Do we want to make such testcases mandatory?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Yes, more testing == better code.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> - If yes, are we there yet, or is there something crucially missing
> > > >>   still?
> > > >
> > > > In my experience, no. Last week while trying to replicate an intel-gfx
> > > > CI failure, I tried compiling igt for one of my (intel) chromebooks.
> > > > It seems like cross-compilation (or, in my case, just specifying
> > > > prefix/ld_library_path/sbin_path) is broken on igt. If we want to
> > > > impose restrictions across the entire subsystem, we need to make sure
> > > > that everyone can build and deploy igt easily.
> > > >
> > > > I managed to hack around everything and get it working, but I still
> > > > haven't tried switching out the toolchain. Once we have some GitLab CI
> > > > to validate cross-compilation, then we can consider making IGT 
> > > > mandatory.
> > > >
> > > > It's possible that I'm just a meson n00b and didn't use the right
> > > > incantation, so maybe it already works, but then we need better
> > > documentation.
> > > >
> > > > I've pasted my horrible hacks below, I also didn't have libunwind, so
> > > > removed its usage.
> > >
> > > I've also had to cut out libunwind for cross-compiling on many occasions.
> > > Worst library.
>
>
>
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