[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/4] drm/i915/gt: nuke unused legacy engine hw_id

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Matt Roper wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 04:20:12PM -0700, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>> The engine hw_id is only used by RING_FAULT_REG(), which is not used
>> since GRAPHICS_VER == 8. We tend to keep adding new defines just to be
>> consistent, but let's try to remove them and let them defined to 0 when
>> not used.
>
>s/when not used/for engines that only exist on gen8+ platforms/
>
>Reviewed-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
>
>For historical reference, we did use hw_id on gen8+ platforms too until
>relatively recently --- it was used to set the engine's guc_id as well
>up until:
>
>        commit c784e5249e773689e38d2bc1749f08b986621a26
>        Author: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
>        Date:   Wed Oct 28 07:58:24 2020 -0700
>
>            drm/i915/guc: Update to use firmware v49.0.1

thanks for digging this, I will add that to the commit message as well.

Lucas De Marchi