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UAPI Changes:

On i915 we have a new UAPI to allow userspace to specify CS ring buffer size on
construction (I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_RINGSIZE) and also new sysfs entries exposing
various engine properties

GVT Changes:

VFIO edid getting expanded to all platforms and a big cleanup around attr
group, unused vblank complete, kvmgt, Intel engine and dev_priv usages.

i915 Changes:

- new UAPI to allow userspace to specify CS ring buffer size on construction
  (I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_RINGSIZE) -  (Chris)
- New sysfs entries exposing various engine properties (Chris)
- Tiger Lake is out of require_force_probe protection (Jose)
- Changes in many places around active requests, reset and heartbeat (Chris)
- Stop assigning drm-dev_private pointer (Jani)
- Many code refactor in many places, including intel_modeset_init,
  increasing use of intel_uncore_*, vgpu, and gvt stuff (Jani)
- Fixes around display pipe iterators (Anshuman)
- Tigerlake enabling work (Matt Ropper, Matt Atwood, Ville, Lucas, Daniele,
  Jose, Anusha, Vivek, Swathi, Caz. Kai)
- Code clean-up like reducing use of drm/i915_drv.h, removing unused
  registers, removing garbage warns, and some other code polishing (Jani, Lucas,
  Ville)
- Selftests fixes, improvements and additions (Chris, Dan, Aditya, Matt Auld)
- Fix plane possible_crtcs bit mask (Anshuman)
- Fixes and cleanup on GLK pre production identification and w/a (Ville)
- Fix display orientation on few cases (Hans, Ville)
- dbuf clean-up and improvements for slice arrays handling (Ville)
- Improvement around min cdclk calculation (Stanislav)
- Fixes and refactor around display PLLs (Imre)
- Other execlists and perf fixes (Chris)
- Documentation fixes (Jani, Chris)
- Fix build issue (Anshuman)
- Many more fixes around the locking mechanisms (Chris)
- Other fixes and debugability info around preemption (Chris, Tvrtko)
- Add mechanism to submit a context WA on ring submission (Mika)
- Clear all Eu/L3 resitual context (Prathap)
- More changes around local memory (Abdiel, Matt, Chris)
- Fix RPS (Chris)
- DP MST fix (Lyude)
- Display FBC fixes (Jose, RK)
- debugfs cleanup (Tvrtko)
- More convertion towards drm_debive based loggin (Wambui, Ram)
- Avoid potential buffer overflow (Takashi)
- Ice Lake and Elkhart Lake workarounds (Matt Roper)