1Unreleased
2----------
3
4Meson build options have been renamed. Please check the news options in
5meson_options.txt and make sure you don't get any warnings when configuring the
6project.
7
8Release 1.24 (2019-06-20)
9-------------------------
10
11- Bumped required meson version to 0.47. (Arkadiusz Hiler)
12
13- All the meson build options that used auto, true and false are now first
14  class 'feature' options taking auto, enabled and disabled. (Arkadiusz Hiler)
15
16- Piglit as the primary test executor replaced by mostly drop-in
17  compatible igt_runner. (Petri Latvala)
18
19- Stack traces now contain source file names and line numbers, using
20  libdw. (Maarten Lankhorst)
21
22- Pixman dependency is now mandatory. (Maxime Ripard)
23
24- The project has moved to gitlab, and uses gitlab's CI to build test
25  and sanity test each commit on various distributions and
26  architectures. (Arkadiusz Hiler et al)
27
28- Shader debugger removed due to lack of use and accumulation of
29  bitrot. (Arkadiusz Hiler)
30
31- Added support for testing DP/HDMI audio with the Chamelium device,
32  dropping the audio tests that required exotic custom hardware to
33  execute. (Simon Ser)
34
35- Autotools support dropped for various parts of IGT (assembler,
36  documentation, etc). (Daniel Vetter)
37
38- intel-gpu-top can now output data to stdout or a log file for
39  noninteractive use. (Tvrtko Ursulin)
40
41
42And many other bug fixes, improvements, cleanups and new tests.
43
44
45Release 1.23 (2018-07-18)
46-------------------------
47
48General changes:
49
50- Bumped used C standard to gnu11. (Lucas De Marchi)
51
52- Bumped required meson version to 0.44. (Petri Latvala)
53
54- Introduced meson options for explicit control over optional dependencies.
55  (Petri Latvala)
56
57- Added a meson option to set runpath for the installed executables.
58  (Petri Latvala)
59
60- GLib is now a mandatory dependency. (Petri Latvala)
61
62- Added testlists for the vc4 driver. (Maxime Ripard)
63
64- The project has now finalized its name change and is now IGT GPU Tools,
65  docs and install paths are now "igt-gpu-tools". (Arkadiusz Hiler)
66
67- Added a blacklist for the Intel CI. (Petri Latvala)
68
69
70Library changes:
71
72- i915_pciids.h updated to include KBL, ICL, WHL and AML.
73  (José Roberto de Souza, Paulo Zanoni)
74
75- Overhaul of gpu_cmds, gpgpu_fill, media_fill and rendercopy.
76  (Katarzyna Dec, Lukasz Kalamarz)
77
78- Added igt_matrix and igt_color_encoding helper libraries. (Ville Syrjälä)
79
80- IGT now shows the kernel stack trace when reporting a GPU hang. (Chris Wilson)
81
82- Added Icelake platform support. (Arkadiusz Hiler, Paulo Zanoni)
83
84
85Tools changes:
86
87- intel-gpu-top was rewritten to be safe to use. (Tvrtko Ursulin)
88
89
90Documentation changes:
91
92- Documented commit rights in CONTRIBUTING. (Daniel Vetter)
93
94
95Test changes:
96
97- kms_prs_sink_crc was renamed to kms_psr. (Dhinakaran Pandiyan)
98
99- kms_frontbuffer_tracking no longer tests sink crc. (Dhinakaran Pandiyan)
100
101- drm_vma_limiter is no more. (Chris Wilson)
102
103
104And many other bug fixes, improvements, cleanups and new tests.
105
106
107Release 1.22 (2018-03-09)
108-------------------------
109
110General changes:
111
112- Libudev has been made a mandatory dependency. (Antonio Argenziano)
113
114- Documentation changed to refer to the new igt-dev mailing
115  list. (Rhys Kidd)
116
117Library changes:
118
119- Refactored timer usage for smaller code size. (Chris Wilson)
120
121- Various fixes to support planar framebuffers. (Maarten Lankhorst)
122
123- Added support for fetching the most recent CRC without waiting for a
124  vblank, along with flushing the queue of already collected
125  CRCs. (Maarten Lankhorst)
126
127- Added a helper to mark BOs purgeable on vc4. (Boris Brezillon)
128
129- Moved handling of a "cork" BO into lib from various tests.
130  (Daniele Ceraolo Spurio)
131
132- Added support for looping over physical i915 engines, as opposed to
133  uABI engines that can alias. (Chris Wilson)
134
135- Added an accelerated method for reading from WC buffers.
136  (Chris Wilson)
137
138Tools changes:
139
140- Improved intel_vbt_decode output, updated the data from current
141  kernel. (Jani Nikula)
142
143- intel_reg can now read/write registers using a given engine.
144  (Mika Kuoppala)
145
146- Aubdump can now simulate enhanced execlist submission, for
147  gen11+. (Scott D Phillips)
148
149
150
151
152
153And many other bug fixes, improvements, cleanups and new tests.
154
155Release 1.21 (2018-01-16)
156-------------------------
157
158Library changes:
159
160- Added helpers for using DRM syncobj. (Jason Ekstrand)
161
162- Refactored several i915 helpers into library functions.
163  (Michał Winiarski)
164
165- Improved the GPU quiescing code to more thoroughly flush old data
166  and pending work. (Chris Wilson)
167
168- Reworked DRM property handling to be more suitable for
169  atomic commits. (Maarten Lankhorst)
170
171- Removed support for legacy CRC API. The generic API has been
172  available since kernel 4.10. (Maarten Lankhorst)
173
174- Opening a DRM device now automatically loads its module. (Chris Wilson)
175
176- Imported the drm-uapi headers as copies instead of using what's
177  installed in the system. (Eric Anholt)
178
179- Moved the perf code to its own library from
180  intel-gpu-overlay. (Tvrtko Ursulin)
181
182- Removed Android support due to lack of use and
183  maintenance. (Arkadiusz Hiler)
184
185- Upgraded meson to official production status, automake is still kept
186  around for now.
187
188Tools changes:
189
190- Improved the output of intel_vbt_decode. (Jani Nikula)
191
192- intel_error_decode now prints user buffers if they contain debug
193  logs. (Chris Wilson)
194
195- Improved the output of intel_watermark. (Ville Syrjälä,
196  Dhinakaran Pandiyan)
197
198- Aubdump can now simulate execlist submission, converting from ring
199  buffer submission method. (Scott D Phillips)
200
201- intel-gpu-overlay can now show data from perf PMU. (Tvrtko Ursulin,
202  Chris Wilson)
203
204- intel-gpu-overlay now parses tracepoint locations from
205  sysfs. (Lionel Landwerlin)
206
207Documentation changes:
208
209- Documentation can now be built with Meson. (Daniel Vetter)
210
211
212And many other bug fixes, improvements, cleanups and new tests.
213
214Release 1.20 (2017-10-03)
215-------------------------
216
217Library changes:
218
219- Added helpers for launching external processes and capturing their
220  outputs. (Abdiel Janulgue)
221
222- Increased max pipe count to 6 to support AMD GPUs. (Leo (Sunpeng) Li)
223
224- Various improvements for Chamelium support. (Paul Kocialkowski)
225
226- Added Coffeelake platform support. (Rodrigo Vivi, Anusha Srivatsa)
227
228- Added Cannonlake platform support. (Rodrigo Vivi)
229
230- Added support for audio testing. (Paul Kocialkowski)
231
232- Added preliminary meson build system support. (Daniel Vetter, et al)
233  -- Autotools remains the supported build system for now.
234
235Tools changes:
236
237- Refactored video bios data to use definitions copied from the
238  kernel. (Jani Nikula)
239
240Documentation changes:
241
242- Added user and developer documentation about Chamelium support to
243  aid deploying the platform. (Paul Kocialkowski)
244
245- Added documentation about the required hardware setup for audio
246  testing. (Paul Kocialkowski)
247
248Tests changes:
249
250- Converted remaining shell-script tests to C code (Abdiel Janulgue)
251
252- Multiple new tests.
253
254
255And many other bug fixes and improvements.
256
257Release 1.19 (2017-06-09)
258-------------------------
259
260Library changes:
261
262- Changed debugfs handlers to open files for the DRM device in use,
263  for setups with more than one DRM device. (Tomeu Vizoso)
264
265- Added support for 4K and audio HDMI EDID injection. (Abdiel
266  Janulgue, Marius Vlad)
267
268- Added support for AMDGPU devices. (Chris Wilson)
269
270Tools changes:
271
272- intel_error_decode now automatically opens a pager. (Chris Wilson)
273
274- intel_error_decode now dumps the GuC firmware logs if available.
275  (Chris Wilson)
276
277Benchmark changes:
278
279- gem_wsim: New benchmark that simulates command submission
280  workloads. (Tvrtko Ursulin)
281
282Scripts changes:
283
284- trace.pl: New tool to parse i915 tracepoints for performance
285  analysis. (Tvrtko Ursulin)
286
287- media-bench.pl: New tool to programmatically analyze simulated media
288  workloads using gem_wsim to find the optimal load balancing
289  strategy. (Tvrtko Ursulin)
290
291Test changes:
292
293- Imported amdgpu tests from libdrm. (Chris Wilson)
294
295- Multiple other new tests.
296
297
298And many other bug fixes and improvements.
299
300Release 1.18 (2017-03-13)
301-------------------------
302
303Library changes:
304
305- Various changes to library functions so that they don't assume Intel
306  hardware. (Lyude)
307
308- Added helper functions for managing synchronization primitives.
309  (Robert Foss)
310
311- Added support for the new generic CRC capture kernel ABI. (Tomeu
312  Vizoso)
313
314- Added Geminilake platform support. (Ander Conselvan de Oliveira)
315
316- Added helpers for sysfs hotplug events. (Lyude)
317
318- Added support for hotplug testing with the Chamelium device (Lyude)
319
320Tools changes:
321
322- intel_dp_compliance: New tool for running automated DisplayPort
323  compliance tests. (Manasi Navare)
324
325- Renamed intel_bios_reader to intel_vbt_decode. (Jani Nikula)
326
327- intel_gvtg_test: New tool for setting up GVT-g guests based on
328  KVMGT. (Terrence Xu)
329
330Test changes:
331
332- Multiple new tests.
333
334
335And many other bug fixes and improvements.
336
337Release 1.17 (2016-12-02)
338-------------------------
339
340Library changes:
341
342- Added an iterator that generate primes for creating input data that
343  should not fall into any patterns that may be optimised by the
344  drivers. (Chris Wilson)
345
346- Crashes in fixture blocks now print a stacktrace. (Marius Vlad)
347
348- Added support for various system suspend/resume options. (Imre Deak)
349
350- Added linked list helpers from the Wayland project. (Lyude)
351
352- Added a generic dummy workload helper for submitting GPU workloads
353  that consume exactly a specified amount of time. (Abdiel Janulgue)
354
355- Added C functions for driver loading/unloading, pkill and lsof, for
356  converting shell script tests to C code. (Marius Vlad)
357
358Tools changes:
359
360- intel_reg: Add Kabylake support. (Jani Nikula)
361
362- intel_bios_reader: Also dump PSR info. (Ville Syrjälä)
363
364- intel_guc_logger: New tool for capturing logs from the GuC
365  firmware. (Akash Goel)
366
367- intel_aubdump: Added commandline option to stream the dump to
368  another process. (Lionel Landwerlin)
369
370- intel_aubdump: Annotate the dump with the application name and the
371  used PCI ID. (Jason Ekstrand)
372
373Benchmark changes:
374
375- gem_latency: Added support for measuring fence wakeup latencies. (Chris Wilson)
376
377- prime_lookup: New microbenchmark for stressing prime_fd_to_handle
378  and prime_handle_to_fd. (Chris Wilson)
379
380Test changes:
381
382- Multiple new tests.
383
384- Added an explicit list of tests used for Intel CI. (Petri Latvala)
385
386- Converted multiple shell script tests to C. (Marius Vlad)
387
388
389And many other bug fixes and improvements.
390
391Release 1.16 (2016-09-02)
392-------------------------
393
394- Build automatically tests required when issueing a make check, Tests/subtests
395that receive a crash signal should print a backtrace when i-g-t is built with
396libunwind support (Marius Vlad)
397
398- lib/igt_kms: Force connector probing on first use (Chris Wilson)
399
400- vc4: Add a test for BO lookup failure error path (Eric Anholt)
401
402- tests/gem_mocs_settings: Remove direct register tests,
403and added RC6 tests (Peter Antoine)
404
405- Check for libdrm_intel and build if present, Add stubs for intel_bufmgr
406(Robert Foss)
407
408- igt/gem_mmap_gtt: Add a test to detect non-WC access (Chris Wilson)
409
410- Various documentation improvements (Daniel Vetter)
411
412- Added new tests: tests/kms_rmfb and tests/kms_atomic_transition, a test for
413fastboot, tests/kms_panel_fitting, and a test that only tries to set the
414current property values back, tests/kms_properties. Various improvements to
415tests/kms_cursor_legacy (Maarten Lankhorst)
416
417- lib/igt_kms: Use pipes for committing, not outputs and assign pipe properties
418in pipe init and many other improvements (Maarten Lankhorst)
419
420- tests/gem_workarounds: read test added as a basic test, fix assertion of num
421of regs (Mika Kuoppala)
422
423- Various improvements to tools/intel_bios_reader and tools/intel_reg (Ville
424Syrjälä)
425
426- lib: Add x86 cpuid based feature detection (Chris Wilson)
427
428- demos/intel_sprite_on: Instead of looping until the first disconnected port
429is found, now go through all possible connectors, drawing the sprite on any
430connected display. (Jim Bride)
431
432- Multiple improvements to lib/igt_kms (Robert Foss)
433
434- lib/igt_aux: Framework for measuring latency in raising signals (Chris
435Wilson)
436
437- Various modifications to intel_chipset: Replace lookup of GT size with
438computation, remove unused PCI_CHIP ids, converting platforms names using
439device info (Chris Wilson)
440
441- tests/kms_chv_cursor_fail: Run the tests with fewer steps
442(Maarten Lankhorst)
443
444- lib/intel_chipset: Add more Kabylake PCI IDs and removed PCI IDs that are no
445longer listed as Kabylake (Rodrigo Vivi)
446
447- Basic framework for GVT-g testing has landed (Chris Wilson)
448
449- Various improvements to tests/kms_flip (Ville Syrjälä)
450
451- igt/kms_cursor_legacy: Add a rudimentary test to detect stalled cursors,
452detect pageflip errors and check that cursor updates do not stall flips
453(Chris Wilson)
454
455- vGEM support: lib and added tests/vgem_basic, tests/vgem_slow and
456tests/vgem_reload_basic (Chris Wilson)
457
458- Various fixes to tests/kms_frontbuffer_tracking: prefer BLT drawing, recreate
459FBS at every subtest and properly handle mixing GTT and WC mmaps (Paulo Zanoni)
460
461- Replace drv_missed_irq_hang script with a C-equivalent: tests/drv_missed_irq
462(Chris Wilson)
463
464- Added a test case for polling dma-buf fences: tests/prime_busy (Chris Wilson)
465
466- lib/igt_gt: Omit illegal instruction on gen8+ and time
467constrains on hang detection (igt/gem_reset_stats) (Mika Kuoppala)
468
469- Added tests/kms_invalid_dotclock, a test that makes sure every modeset gets
470rejected by the kernel if the requested dotclock is beyond the hardware
471capabilities (Ville Syrjälä)
472
473- tests/gem_stolen: Verify contents of stolen-backed objects across
474hibernation, fix for no_mmap subtest and check for available stolen memory size
475(Ankitprasad Sharma)
476
477- tests/core_prop_blob: Add invalid tests to set fb props (Daniel Vetter)
478
479- Many more fixes and improvements.
480
481Release 1.15 (2016-05-31)
482-------------------------
483
484- New KMS test: tests/kms_cursor_legacy (Stress legacy cursor ioctl)
485(Chris Wilson)
486
487- Several GEM tests have been removed from BAT: tests/gem_exec_whisper,
488tests/gem_sync (dropped individual engines), test/gem_cs_prefetch (replaced
489by test/gem_exec_gttfill), tests/gem_ctx_param_basic (got relabeled
490to tests/gem_ctx_param) (Chris Wilson)
491
492- build: Skip configure step if is NOCONFIGURE set (Tomeu Vizoso)
493
494- tools/intel_bios_reader: Added options for dumping individual panels, specific
495section, hex format and other various fixes (Jani Nikula)
496
497- build: Add optional --enable-werror
498(hard-fail in case of compiler warnings) (Marius Vlad)
499
500- New KMS test: tests/prime_mmap_kms (show case dma-buf new API
501and processes restrictions) (Tiago Vignatti)
502
503- Several tests have gained to ability to be run on different platforms
504than Intel: tests/testdisplay (Tomeu Vizoso), tests/kms_panel_fitting
505(Robert Foss), tests/kms_flip_event_leak, tests/kms_flip (Tomeu Vizoso).
506
507- compute exitcode first: In the case of running multiple subtests which all
508happen to be skipped, igt_exitcode is 0, but the final exit code will be 77.
509(Chris Wilson)
510
511- Shorten tests/kms_flip test (Tvrtko Ursulin)
512
513- Half the timeout for suspend to RAM and a third for suspend to disk
514(Marius Vlad)
515
516- lib: Pass format instead of bpp to create_bo_for_fb (Ville Syrjälä)
517
518- Removed from tests/test-list.txt, tests/gem_concurrent_all and added
519tests/test-list-full.txt that contains all the tests. This will speed
520up considerably piglit when starting tests. (Gabriel Feceoru)
521
522- piglit changed its behaviour to prevent overwriting the results. A fairly new
523version of piglit is required to run i-g-t tests. (Gabriel Feceoru)
524
525- lib: Replace drmIoctl() with a layer of indirection (Chris Wilson)
526
527- Adding missing Broxton PCI IDs (Rodrigo Vivi)
528
529- Added COMMIT_ATOMIC (lib/igt_kms, w/ tests/kms_rotation_crc).
530Requires nuclear_pageflip parameter turned on in the i915 driver.
531(Mayuresh Gharpure, Pratik Vishwakarma)
532
533- man/: rewrite manual pages in reStructuredText (Jani Nikula)
534
535- tests/drv_module_reload_basic: perform fault injection (Chris Wilson)
536with various improvements (Imre Deak)
537
538- Removed tests/gem_multi_bsd_sync_loop which was superseded by
539tests/gem_ring_sync_loop and tests/gem_dummy_reloc_loop by
540tests/gem_exec_reloc (Chris Wilson)
541
542- New GEM tests: tests/gem_exec_whisper, tests/gem_exec_store,
543test/gem_exec_gttfill, tests/gem_exec_suspend, tests/gem_exec_flush
544(Chris Wilson)
545
546- New benchmarks: benchmarks/gem_syslatency, benchmarks/gem_exec_fault
547(Chris Wilson)
548
549- tests/gem_exec_nop included in BAT (Chris Wilson)
550
551- tests/pm_rpm: Fix crash on machines that lack LLC (David Weinehall)
552
553- lib/igt_fb: Fix domain tracking for GTT cairo surfaces (Chris Wilson)
554
555- Add igt_subtest_group to allow igt_fixture for only a subset of subtests
556without skipping/failing all subsequent subtests. (Daniel Vetter)
557
558- Many more fixes and improvements.
559
560Release 1.14 (2016-03-01)
561-------------------------
562
563- New test: gem_create validate parameters for GEM_CREATE ioctl
564(Ankitprasad Sharma)
565
566- New test: gem_softpin exercise the userptr ioctl to create shared
567buffers between CPU and GPU (Vinay Belgaumkar)
568
569- New tests: prime_mmap_coherency/kms_mmap_write_crc cache coherency
570tests (Tiago Vignatti)
571
572- New test: prime_mmap mmap() on dma-buf fds (Rob Bradford)
573
574- New test: gem_exec_reloc sanity check of execbuf-ioctl relocations (Chris
575Wilson)
576
577- New test: gem_exec_basic sanity check of execbuf-ioctl rings (Chris Wilson)
578
579- improved igt_hang_ring() infrastructure for generic hang injection support in
580the core library (Chris Wilson)
581
582- new igt_pm library to collect power management testing helpers (David
583Weinehall)
584
585- lig/igt_vc4: VC4 support library (Eric Anholt)
586
587- kms_frontbuffer_tracking: included in BAT (Paulo Zanoni)
588
589- kms_psr_sink_crc: Add BAT test for PSR active (Rodrigo Vivi)
590
591- gem_wait: test superseded by gem_latency in benchmarks (Chris Wilson)
592
593- igt_core: Fix logging to display extended line (Derek Morton)
594
595- igt_core: Expand --run-subtest functionality (Derek Morton)
596
597- kms_force_connector_basic: various fixes and included in BAT set (Daniel
598Vetter)
599
600- Many other improvements and bug fixes.
601
602Release 1.13 (2015-12-02)
603-------------------------
604
605- New test: kms_atomic tests atomic mode setting (Daniel Stone)
606
607- New test: core_prop_blob tests blob properties (Daniel Stone)
608
609- New test: gem_request_retire targets request retirement code paths
610  (Tvrtko Ursulin)
611
612- New test: core_setmaster_vs_auth checks that drop/setMaster correctly
613  transfer master state (Thomas Hellstrom/Daniel Vetter)
614
615- Wildcard characters are now accepted when using the --run-subtest command
616  line option to specify multiple subtests to run. (Thomas Wood)
617
618- Add support for Broxton in intel_audio_dump (Han Lu)
619
620- Added Kabylake support (Rodrigo Vivi/Wayne Boyer)
621
622- Many other bug fixes and improvements
623
624Release 1.12 (2015-09-11)
625-------------------------
626
627- Various new tests and tools
628
629- New statistical analysis functions. (Damien Lespiau)
630
631- New benchmark tests. (Chris Wilson)
632
633- Old register tools that were superseded by intel_reg have been removed.
634
635- Various tests have been marked "basic", to indicate they are suitable for
636  use in basic acceptance testing. (Jesse Barnes)
637
638- Per-ring gem_storedw_loop tests combined into a single test with subtests.
639  (Jesse Barnes)
640
641- New "aubdump" tool, used to launch an application and capture rendering to
642  an AUB file. (Kristian Høgsberg Kristensen)
643
644- Cherryview support added to intel_display_poller. (Ville Syrjälä)
645
646- Skylake and Broadwell support added to gem_gpgpu_fill tests.
647  (Dominik Zeromski)
648
649- Support for running core drm tests on any platform. (Micah Fedke)
650
651- Many other bug fixes
652
653Release 1.11 (2015-06-11)
654-------------------------
655
656- Various new tests and tools
657
658- Single combined test list (supported by piglit since commit 8a122bb)
659
660- Optional dependency on libunwind to provide automatic stack traces on test
661  failures. (Thomas Wood)
662
663- Add optional default debug and optimisation flags for tests to enable better
664  stack traces and debugging. (Thomas Wood)
665
666- Test programs are now installed into libexec. This is useful when building a
667  complete software stack for a DUT from scratch. (Building and installing
668  tests can still be disabled by the --disable-tests configure flag.)
669  (Joonas Lahtinen)
670
671- New tool to decode watermark registers (Ville Syrjälä)
672
673- Timeout mechanism now reports test as failed
674
675- Introduce intel_reg as the one Intel graphics register multitool to replace
676  intel_reg_read, intel_reg_write, intel_iosf_sb_read, intel_iosf_sb_write,
677  intel_vga_read, intel_vga_write, intel_reg_dumper, intel_reg_snapshot,
678  and quick_dump.py. (Jani Nikula)
679
680- Add functions to manipulate i915.ko parameters and ensure features are enabled
681  for testing. (Paulo Zanoni)
682
683Release 1.10 (2015-03-12)
684-------------------------
685
686- New frequency manipulation tool (intel_gpu_frequency)
687
688- Adjustments for the Solaris port (Alan Coopersmith).
689
690- Remove tests/NAMING-CONVENTION since it's all in the docbook now, to avoid
691  divergent conventions.
692
693- New CRITICAL log level for really serious stuff (Thomas Wood).
694
695- Interactive test mode can now be enabled by the shared cmdline option
696  --interactive-debug=$var (Rodrigo Vivi).
697
698- Improved logging to kmsg to better line up test runs with kernel messages
699  (Chris Wilson).
700
701- Record all log levels (including disabled levels) in a ringbuffer and dump
702  that on test failures for quicker diagnostics of automated test run results
703  (Thomas Wood).
704
705- A lot of small polish all over the test library.
706
707- Piles of new testcases and improvements to existing ones as usual.
708
709Release 1.9 (2014-12-12)
710------------------------
711
712- New test cases added: drm_import_export, gem_gpgpu_fill, gem_ppgtt,
713  gem_tiled_wb, kms_pwrite_crc.
714
715- New helper for interactive progress indicators (see igt_print_activity and
716  igt_progress), which can be disabled by setting the log-level to warn (Thomas
717  and Daniel).
718
719- Basic skl support: pci ids, rendercopy & mediafill (Damien, Zhao Yakui).
720
721- chv support for the iosf sideband tools and a few other improvements (Ville).
722
723- Fence register support for intel_reg_dumper on bdw+ (Rodrigo).
724
725- Support for skl in quick_dump (Damien).
726
727- Golden state generation infrastructure (Mika).
728
729- New skl watermark tool (Damien).
730
731- New EDID test block that includes multiple display modes (Thomas).
732
733- Individual test documentation available in generated documentation and from
734  the test binaries (Thomas).
735
736- New logging domains and log filtering (Thomas).
737
738- Various API documentation fixes and improvements (Thomas).
739
740Release 1.8 (2014-09-08)
741------------------------
742
743- Added lib/igt.cocci semantic patch to catch often-seen patterns and convert
744  them to igt macros/infrastructure.
745
746- Improvements to the documentation build systems (Thomas).
747
748- Small fixes and improvements to the igt infrastructure and helpers all over.
749
750- As usual piles of new tests.
751
752- Improved plane/pipe handling in the igt_kms library (Damien).
753
754- Unified option parsing between simple tests and tests with subtests (Thomas).
755  This will allow us to merge the different Makefile targets once test runners
756  are converted.
757
758- New commit functions for igt_kms to support the new universal planes
759  interfaces (Matt Roper).
760
761- Polish the debug output when test requirements aren't met a bit and inject the
762  program name/subtest in dmesg for easier backtrace/oom debugging (Chris).
763
764- A bit of polish for the framebuffer helper functions (Damien).
765
766- Robuster option parsing helpers, they now check for conflicts when merging
767  different option lists (Thomas).
768
769- MIPI DSI vbt support in intel_bios_read (Gaurav K Singh).
770
771- Clarify the split between low-level helpers and the high-level library in
772  igt_kms a bit by renaming some functions and improving and extending the api
773  documentation.
774
775- Helper to restore the vt mode, useful to test lastclose/fbdev emulation
776  behaviour (Thomas).
777
778- Refactor the support for 64bit relocs. By specifying the number of relocations
779  explicit a lot of the gen8 checks can be removed from simple testcases which
780  only use the blitter (Chris).
781
782Release 1.7 (2014-06-09)
783------------------------
784
785- Piles of API documentation for the core i-g-t testing libraries.
786
787- Improved igt loggin, now also with igt_vlog (for va_args printf-style
788  logging).
789
790- Polish for the igt_debugfs library.
791
792- Split out igt_fb library from igt_kms, cleanup of the igt_kms functions.
793
794- Android porting patches (Tim Gore, Tvrtko Ursulin).
795
796- Piles more tests as usual.
797
798- Support for building libcairo based tests on Android. Set ANDROID_HAS_CAIRO=1
799  in the build enviroment when you have this (Tim Gore).
800
801- Timeout support in igt_aux, see igt_set_timeout (Thomas).
802
803- Documentation for the testrunner interface like exit codes, subtest
804  enumeration and log output. Should help other people to run the tests in their
805  own framework.
806
807- Make swig an optional dependency (Damien).
808
809- Helpers for runtime pm tests in igt_aux.
810
811Release 1.6 (2014-03-13)
812------------------------
813
814- Changes to support Broadwell in the test suite. (Ben, Damien, et al.)
815
816- Updated (now working again!) Android support from Oscar Mateo.
817
818- Test coverage through i-g-t is now officially an integral part of any drm/i915
819  feature work and also for bugfixes. For more details see:
820
821  http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/11/testing-requirements-for-drmi915.html
822
823- Fix the gen4asm build dependency handling, now that the assembler is included in
824  i-g-t (Ben).
825
826- Improve the cairo object lifetime management of the kmstest helpers (Chris).
827
828- Allow register access to succeed if i915 is loaded but debugfs isn't found
829  (i.e. nomodeset is used)
830
831- New kernel modesetting helper library for simpler testcases (Damien).
832
833- New structure logging support for tests. Message at the WARN level be
834  reflected in the piglit result, also included igt_warn_on macros to simplify
835  test asserts which should just result in warnings, but not in a test abort.
836
837- Broadwell support for intel_audio_dump (Mengdong Lin).
838
839- API documentation support (Thomas)
840
841Release 1.5 (2013-11-06)
842------------------------
843
844- Some polishing of the test infrastructure, for details see:
845
846  http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/09/more-drmi915-testsuite-infrastructure.html
847
848- Haswell support for the DPF tool (tools/intel_l3_parity) and other
849  improvements (Ben).
850
851- Stereo/3D support in testdisplay (Damien).
852
853- Support for gen7 gpu perf counters in tools/intel_perf_counters (Kenneth).
854
855- Improvements to the VBT decoder (Jani).
856
857- New tool to read legacy VGA registers (Ville).
858
859- New helpers in the test library to help deal with debugfs files and the new
860  display pipe CRC support (Damien).
861
862- Introduction of a proper naming convention for all the testcases, see
863  tests/NAMING-CONVENTION.
864
865- As usual tons of new testcases and improvements and bugfixes to existing ones.
866
867- The testsuite framework itself has gained some regression tests which can be
868  run at compile-time with "make check".
869
870- New helpers for the drop_cache kernel interface and use drop_caches(RETIRE) to
871  really make sure the gpu is idle in testcases (Oscar Mateo).
872
873Release 1.4 (2013-09-16)
874------------------------
875
876- Integration of the gen4+ assembler (Damien).
877
878- Start of a new performance analysis tool from Chris Wilson with front-ends for
879  both X11 and plain kms. This uses the perf subsystem and the gpu performance
880  counter kernel patches from Chris.
881
882- New register dumper quick_dump from Ben, with lots of work from Damien. This
883  will superseed intel_reg_dumper for newer platforms (which are not yet
884  released) since it will allow us to automatically generate register dumps from
885  the internal xml register specifications.
886
887- Tools to access the pletoria of new indirect register access functions on
888  newer platforms.
889
890- Framebuffer contents dumper to debug some of the nastier corruption issues.
891  The advantage here is that this bypasses any userspace drivers and so avoids
892  that the corruptions get magically fixed when taking an X screenshot.
893
894- Tons of new testcases. Including subtests we are now at roughly 450 tests!
895
896- Improvements to the test framework infrastructure. See
897  http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/08/recent-drmi915-testsuite-improvements.html
898  for an overview.
899
900Release 1.3 (2012-08-27)
901------------------------
902
903- massive improvements to the testsuite
904- dpf tool for handling l3 remapping on gen7 (Ben)
905- robustify against wc gtt mappings (Chris)
906- improvements to the reg_dumper and register read/write tools
907- haswell support
908
909Release 1.2 (2012-02-09)
910------------------------
911
912- intel_audio_dump improvements (Wu Fengguang)
913- buildsystem improvements (Gaetan Nadon)
914- solaris support (Alan Coopersmith)
915- massive refactoring of testcases and rendercpy extraction
916- new tests
917- fixed up intel_reg_read/write for platforms needing forcewake (needs a
918  kernel patch which from 3.3 to work on ivb - Ben Widawsky)
919
920Release 1.1 (2011-12-24)
921------------------------
922
923Improved testsuite, usable for kernel regression testing!
924
925Release 1.0 (2009-04-27)
926------------------------
927
928Initial release:
929- miscellaneous userland tools that don't really fit into the 2D driver tree
930- standalone regression tests for the DRM (make check)
931- microbenchmarks of the DRM for kernel performance regression testing
932