[Intel-gfx] [RFC] drm/i915: read current config at init time to avoid flicker

[Keith Packard]

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:37:47 -0800, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> The intent here is to build enough of the configuration to allow
> set_config to avoid mode setting if possible.

When I played with this, not setting the fb across this process tended
to do 'bad' things to the hardware -- the scanout would get unmapped
when the GTT was initialized...

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