refactor the i915 GVT support and move to the modern mdev API v3

[Wang, Zhi A]

On 4/13/22 11:20 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 11:13:06PM +0000, Wang, Zhi A wrote:
>> Hi folks:
>>
>> Thanks so much for the efforts. I prepared a branch which contains all our patches.The aim of the branch is for the VFIO maintainers to pull the whole bunch easily after the drm-intel-next got merged through drm (as one of the MMIO patches depends on a patch in drm-intel-next).
>>
>> I dropped patch 4 and patch 5 as they have been covered by Jani's patches. Some conflicts was solved.
>> QA is going to test it today. 
>>
>> You can find it here:
>>
>> git clone https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux -b for-christoph
> 
> There are alot of extra commits on there - is it possible to base this
> straight on rc1 not on some kind of existing DRM tree?
> 
> Why did you choose drm/i915/fbc: Call intel_fbc_activate() directly
> from frontbuffer flush  as a base?
> 
> Jason
> 

Hi Jason:

I updated the branch. You can check if those are what you are expecting. :)

Thanks,
Zhi.