[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915/dp: Remove eDP special cases from bandwidth checks

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu May 10 20:40:23 CEST 2012


On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:29:18 -0400, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 23:13 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:43:50 -0400, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > These were just working around the math being wrong.
> > 
> > One wonders whether this might break some machines which are currently
> > working. Should we emit an error or something if an eDP panel asks for
> > the impossible?
> 
> Probably, but I think in cases where that happens we should be
> considering the driver to be broken before the panel.  No one's going to
> manufacture hardware that can't run Windows.

Sigh, This patch did introduce a number of regressions, notably
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45801
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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