Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2017-06-21 10:13:57)
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]>
> 
> This is a lighter-weight alternative to the previously posted
> RFC titled "drm/i915: Engine discovery uAPI" which still allows
> some engine configuration probing without depending on PCI ids.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ben Widawsky <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jon Bloomfield <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Rogozhkin, Dmitry V" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Oscar Mateo <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Gong, Zhipeng" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> --
> Floating as an alternative to the heavier engine discovery API
> sent previously which did not manage to gain much interest from
> userspace clients.
> 
> With this one enumeration and feature discovery would be done by
> sending null batches to all engine instances. Downside is less
> extensibility if we are using a fixed and smaller number of eb
> flags.

But we lose out on features? Just after you convinced me that features
was what we wanted! :-p
-Chris
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