Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915/skl: Split the SKL PCI ids by GT

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 09:30:07AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Jeff McGee <jeff.mcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:13:38PM +0000, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> >> We need to have a separate GT3 struct intel_device_info to declare they
> >> have a second VCS. Let's start by splitting the PCI ids per-GT.
> >> 
> > Would it be a good idea to do more programmatic population of
> > these fields, rather than creating an entire new instance of the
> > struct just to alter one field? This relates to our other
> > conversation about the memory consumed by the 30+ device infos
> > and the concern when adding new fields.
> 
> From a debugging perspective, I do like the way it is. You can look at
> or search the info structs and you know which platforms have what, no
> thinking involved.
> 
> On a related note, I'm contemplating sending a patch to obliterate the
> _INTEL_BDW_M and _INTEL_BDW_D macros from i915_pciids.h because it hides
> the IDs from a simple grep.
> 
> See how I try to optimize space and time resources - of my brain!

I think I agree after considering this more. At least in this case.
-Jeff
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