[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: quirk away broken OpRegion VBT

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Sun Mar 25 00:03:08 CET 2012


On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:51:30 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Somehow the BIOS manages to screw things up when copying the VBT
> around, because the one we scrap from the VBIOS rom actually works.
> 
> Cc: stable at kernel.org
> Tested-by: Markus Heinz <markus.heinz at uni-dortmund.de>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28812
> Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

That completely disproves my theory that the BIOS writers that went to
the extra trouble to implement the OpRegion specification would be more
likely to get it right and to make the information stored there accurate.

Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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