Regression on Chromebook Pixel 2015 due to i915 fastboot always-on

[David Airlie]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> To: "Jani Nikula" <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: "Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>, "Olof Johansson" <olof at lixom.net>, "Maarten Lankhorst"
> <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>, "Dave Airlie" <airlied at redhat.com>, "Duncan Laurie" <dlaurie at chromium.org>,
> "dri-devel" <dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 19 November, 2015 2:18:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Regression on Chromebook Pixel 2015 due to i915 fastboot always-on
> 
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Jani Nikula
> <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> Imo revert. With all the QA awol fail we've suffered the past few
> >> months we've become a bit too lax imo with reverting fast, and the
> >> point of the split-out commit was to allow exactly that.
> >
> > Based on the logs from Olof, looks like a modeset would be required to
> > enable backlight, instead of just cranking up the brightness. So agreed
> > on the revert.
> 
> Should I just do the revert myself in my tree, or will I get it
> through the drm tree?

I'm assuming I'll get a pull request from Jani by the end of the week, and I'll
pass it on to you as per normal, but it might be good if he could accelerate that.

Dave.