drm/xe: Drop 'force_execlist' module parameter

During very early development of the Xe driver the force_execlist module
parameter could be used to exercise some parts of the driver in a
GuC-less manner.  This was primarily intended to ensure that the driver
was being designed and developed with proper modularity and layering;
use of the GuC firmware has always been considered mandatory for any
real Xe driver operation.  The "execlist" implementation in the driver
was never completed, and has further bitrotted over time to the point
where it hangs during execution of even the simplest IGT tests like
xe_exec_store now.

Drop the force_execlist parameter; it's broken and isn't going to get
fixed.  In the (very unlikely) event that we decide to bring something
like this back in the future, it would need to be as a per-device
configfs setting rather than a driver-wide module parameter.

The "execlist" implementation is now dead code, so it will probably also
be removed sometime in the near future.  There's a bit more general
refactoring we might want to do first before we take that step, so for
now we're just removing the module parameter.

Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260626-remove_execlists-v1-1-2584d8c4a6f2@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_debugfs.c
index 22b471303984..3c018dbccc07 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_debugfs.c
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ static int info(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
 	drm_printf(&p, "revid %d\n", xe->info.revid);
 	drm_printf(&p, "tile_count %d\n", xe->info.tile_count);
 	drm_printf(&p, "vm_max_level %d\n", xe->info.vm_max_level);
-	drm_printf(&p, "force_execlist %s\n", str_yes_no(xe->info.force_execlist));
 	drm_printf(&p, "has_flat_ccs %s\n", str_yes_no(xe->info.has_flat_ccs));
 	drm_printf(&p, "has_usm %s\n", str_yes_no(xe->info.has_usm));
 	drm_printf(&p, "skip_guc_pc %s\n", str_yes_no(xe->info.skip_guc_pc));