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authorYang Rong <rong.r.yang@intel.com>2014-09-05 11:25:05 +0800
committerZhigang Gong <zhigang.gong@intel.com>2014-09-10 13:07:05 +0800
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Update README for the command parser in drm kernel.
Signed-off-by: Yang Rong <rong.r.yang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong@linux.intel.com>
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@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ really recent C++11 features, you may expect problems with older compilers. Last
time I tried, the code breaks ICC 12 and Clang with internal compiler errors
while compiling anonymous nested lambda functions.
+**Note about Linux Kernel**
+* There is a known issue in some versions of linux kernel which enable register whitelist feature
+ but miss some necessary registers which are required for beignet. The problematic version are
+ around 3.15 and 3.16 which have commit f0a346b... but haven't commit c9224f... If it is the case,
+ you can apply c9224f... manually and rebuild the kernel or just disable the parse command by
+ invoke the following command (use Ubuntu as an example):
+ `# echo 0 > /sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_cmd_parser`
+
How to build and install
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