[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Recognise non-VGA display devices
Dave Airlie
airlied at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 23:49:59 CET 2011
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> Starting with SandyBridge (though possible with earlier hacked BIOSes),
> the BIOS may initialise the IGFX as secondary to a discrete GPU. Prior,
> it would simply disable the integrated GPU. In such a configuration, the
> IGFX is not a primary VGA controller and so should not take part in VGA
> arbitration.
VGA arb shouldn't happen for any devices not VGA class, it shouldn't place the
devices into the arb list at all in this case.
Dave.
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