[RFC PATCH 3/5] drm/i915: register LVDS connector even if we can't get a panel mode

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 10:18:38PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:14:12PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> > I like this approach more - the only other solution I see is to ask the
> > currently active driver (i.e. radeon) at bootime for the right mode. Which
> > sounds much more hellish and fragile ...
> 
> The "correct" approach is clearly to just have the drm core change the 
> i2c mux before requesting edid, but that's made difficult because of the 
> absence of ordering guarantees in initialisation. I don't like quirking 
> this, since we're then back to the situation of potentially having to 
> add every new piece of related hardware to the quirk list.

The "correct" approach of switching the mux before we fetch the edid is
actualy the one I fear will result in fragile code: Only run on few
machines, and as you say with tons of funky interactions with the init
sequence ordering. And I guess people will bitch&moan about the flickering
this will cause ;-)

As long as it's only apple shipping multi-gpu machines with
broken/non-existing vbt, I'll happily stomach the quirk list entries.
They're bad, but imo the lesser evil.
-Daniel
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