[Intel-gfx] [RFC 2/7] drm/i915: Introduce runtime device info

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 12/11/2018 17:36, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 05:12:37PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>>
>> Idea of runtime device info is to contain all fields from the existing
>> device info which are modified at runtime.
>>
>> Initially we move there fields which are never set from the static
>> tables ie.: num_rings, num_sprites, num_scalers,
> 
> If we accept that num_sprites[fused_off_pipe] can be non-zero
> we could keep num_sprites and num_scalers in the static info.
> I don't *think* we have any code that would rely on those being
> zero.

Works for me, that is, I don't have a strong opinion on this one. If 
display folks agree on this direction you can either implement this 
ahead, or I can incorporate the move in this series.

Regards,

Tvrtko