Video PM Methods

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:03 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> In fact, I suspect we want something very close to what the kernel has
> -- a table of devices keyed on the full [vendor id, device id, subvendor
> id, subdevice id], with sentinels PCI_VENDOR_ANY and PCI_DEVICE_ANY
> which match any value, and then (possibly) another table of "quirks"
> keyed the same way.  I'm not actually sure we need the quirks table yet.

Erm.. Why not just use the fdi xml to express the differences (if we
find any quirks)?

> See above -- it really doesn't need to be two stages, it's just a table.
> Also, it's easily expressed in e.g. xml if we want to go that route
> (which I bet most people do).  And it's easy to override things, should
> you want to, in those XML documents.

Yes, we need to work within the current fdi framework IMO.

Richard.