[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] x86: add early quirk for reserving Intel graphics stolen memory v3

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:34:05AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:41:49AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 05:04:43PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > Two bikesheds:
> > - Can't we give the thing a better name like "Intel Graphics Stolen"?
> 
> Using a custom type and name seems simple enough and naturally leads it
> to ending up in iomem_resource.
> 
> > - Can't we store the iomem region somewhere so that intel-gtt.ko and
> >   i915.ko can get at it and we could drop the duplicated stolen detection
> >   code?
> 
> The choice is then walking the resource list looking for our named
> region or reading a couple of registers. Certainly walking the iomem makes
> everything much clearer.

Oh, I like this ;-)
-Daniel
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