[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 14/16] drm/i915: Use PCI-ID to identify Broadwater and Crestline

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 18:16:00 -0700, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 22:17:22 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > ... as they only had a single PCI-ID each, and so using the pci-id is
> > easier than using a capability bit.
> 
> This doesn't seem useful to me; it only saves a couple of bits in the
> struct and replaces that with compares. Meh.

The switch is from a comparatively expensive compare to a cheaper compare
*consistent* with the other individual chipset identifiers.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre