[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/24] MacBook Air patch sequence (v2)

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:09:32PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Ok, so I've split all of the changes into bite-sized pieces so that
> they should make sense individually now. I've also added the same
> asynchronous power control to the panel power, this reduces the
> module load time down to about 700ms on my MacBook Air, which is
> pretty nice.
> 
> Given the length of the series, I don't think this should all land in
> 3.1, however I'd like opinions on whether I should push this subset,
> which makes the MacBook Air work, into drm-intel-fixes and send that
> along.
> 
>  [PATCH 01/21] drm/i915: Enable digital port hotplug on PCH systems
>  [PATCH 02/21] drm/i915: Shut down PCH interrupts during
>  [PATCH 03/21] drm/i915: Remove extra 300ms delay during eDP mode
>  [PATCH 04/21] drm/i915: Only use VBT panel mode on eDP if no EDID is
>  [PATCH 05/21] drm/i915: Check eDP power when doing aux channel
>  [PATCH 06/21] drm/i915: Unlock PCH_PP_CONTROL always
>  [PATCH 07/21] drm/i915: Check for eDP inside
>  [PATCH 08/21] drm/i915: Turn force VDD back off when panel running
>  [PATCH 09/21] drm/i915: Delay DP i2c initialization until panel
>  [PATCH 10/21] drm/i915: Wrap DP EDID fetch functions to enable eDP
>  [PATCH 11/21] drm/i915: Enable eDP panel power during I2C
>  [PATCH 12/21] drm/i915: Ensure eDP powered up during DP_SET_POWER
>  [PATCH 13/21] drm/i915: Place long delays after each eDP VDD
>  [PATCH 14/21] drm/i915: Correct eDP panel power sequencing delay
> 
> The diffstat for that sequence is:
> 
>  i915_drv.h |    1 
>  i915_irq.c |   28 ++++++++
>  i915_reg.h |    6 +
>  intel_dp.c |  194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  4 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> 
> This might be too big at this point in the 3.1 release, so perhaps
> just marking these with a Cc: to stable would be more appropriate.

Are these really all -stable material?

I'm all for enabling new hardware like this, and overall, the patches
aren't that bad, just want to verify this.

And, I do have to tell you, "curses, now I have no excuse to not buy
that laptop!"

greg k-h