[Intel-gfx] please revert 869184a675662bddcdf76c5b95665272facff2b8 ASAP

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 20:05:44 +0000 (UTC)
Joep Daandels <jdaandels at home.nl> wrote:

> Chris Wilson <chris <at> chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:06:23 +1000, Dave Airlie <airlied <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > > drm/i915/dp: use VBT provided eDP params if available
> > > 
> > > Looks like trusting the BIOS is a bad plan, also that commit seems to
> > > do a lot more than just use some VBT values, probably needs more
> > > splitting up from jbarnes.
> > 
> > I've had one lucky Vaio owner report that this revert breaks his machine.
> > Looks like a partial revert is in order. eDP, what fun.
> > -Chris
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm afraid he's not the only vaio owner with problems. I was quite happy with
> 2.6.37 rc 2 to 4 because finally the display port was detected again after
> skipping 2.6.36 because of the issue. 
> 
> Only just found this thread with an explaination why I was unable to work 2.6.36.
> 
> Is there any chance eDP will work again in the final release without breaking
> other laptops:

Possible but unlikely.  I'm still waiting to receive a couple more
laptops for testing so I can fix all of them at once rather than fixing
one and breaking another...

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center