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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2016-09-13 00:19:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2016-09-13 00:19:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 1f8ee720cebd2a4988e2627aa0c45465778c3171 (patch) | |
| tree | c3321abb0bd869eae6df091df434093c5a004ff0 /Documentation | |
| parent | eb97027f0789bd6dcfa088b66de0c287dc4ff57a (diff) | |
| parent | dec90ea1456b5a5d990d94ade2e45a2457cfd149 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1f8ee720cebd2a4988e2627aa0c45465778c3171.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'topic/drm-misc-2016-09-08' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel into drm-next
* tag 'topic/drm-misc-2016-09-08' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel:
drm: Fix error path in drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl()
Revert "drm: Unify handling of blob and object properties"
drm/udl: implement usb_driver suspend/resume.
drm: fix signed integer overflow
drm/atomic: Reject properties not part of the object.
drm/doc: Add a few words on validation with IGT
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst index 12b47c3..1ba301c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst @@ -156,6 +156,43 @@ other hand, a driver requires shared state between clients which is visible to user-space and accessible beyond open-file boundaries, they cannot support render nodes. +Validating changes with IGT +=========================== + +There's a collection of tests that aims to cover the whole functionality of +DRM drivers and that can be used to check that changes to DRM drivers or the +core don't regress existing functionality. This test suite is called IGT and +its code can be found in https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools/. + +To build IGT, start by installing its build dependencies. In Debian-based +systems:: + + # apt-get build-dep intel-gpu-tools + +And in Fedora-based systems:: + + # dnf builddep intel-gpu-tools + +Then clone the repository:: + + $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools + +Configure the build system and start the build:: + + $ cd igt-gpu-tools && ./autogen.sh && make -j6 + +Download the piglit dependency:: + + $ ./scripts/run-tests.sh -d + +And run the tests:: + + $ ./scripts/run-tests.sh -t kms -t core -s + +run-tests.sh is a wrapper around piglit that will execute the tests matching +the -t options. A report in HTML format will be available in +./results/html/index.html. Results can be compared with piglit. + VBlank event handling ===================== |