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    drm/i915/icl: Remove alpha support protection · 2909bf05
    José Roberto de Souza authored
    Now with the watermarks fixes merged, Icelake is stable enough to
    have the alpha support protection flag removed.
    
    We have a few ICL machines in our CI and it is mostly green with
    failures in tests that will not impact future linux installations.
    Also there is no warnings, errors, flickering or any visual defects
    while doing ordinary tasks like browsing and editing documents in a
    dual monitor setup.
    
    As a reminder i915.alpha_support was created to protect
    future linux installation's iso images that might contain a
    kernel from the enabling time of the new platform. Without this
    protection most of linux installation was recommending
    nomodeset option during installation that was getting stick
    there after installation.
    
    Specifically, alpha support says nothing about the development
    state of the hardware, and everything about the state of the
    driver in a kernel release.
    
    This is semantically no different from the old
    preliminary_hw_support flag, but the old one was all too often
    interpreted as (preliminary hw) support instead of the intended
    (preliminary) hw support, and it was misleading for everyone.
    Hence the rename.
    
    Reference: https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/fi-icl-y.html
    Reference: https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/shard-iclb.html
    Cc: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@intel.com>
    Cc: Jani Saarinen <jani.saarinen@intel.com>
    Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
    Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
    Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
    Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosé Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190305221153.359-1-jose.souza@intel.com
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