[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 5/5] i965/chv: Display proper branding

[Rob Clark]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Ben Widawsky
<benjamin.widawsky at intel.com> wrote:
> "Braswell" is a Cherryview based *thing*. It unfortunately requires extra
> information to determine its marketing name. Unlike all previous products, and
> hopefully all future ones, there is no unique 1:1 mapping of PCI device ID to
> brand string.
>
> I put up a fight about adding any complexity to our GL renderer string code for
> a very long time. However, a wise man made a comment to me that I couldn't argue
> with: if a user installs Windows on their hardware, the brand string should be
> the same as what we display in Linux. The Windows driver apparently does this
> check, so we should too.
>
> Note that I did manage to find a good use for this info anyway in the computer
> shader thread counts.

s/computer/compute/ I assume?

BR,
-R

> Cc: Kaveh Nasri <kaveh.nasri at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky at intel.com>