[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Workaround to bump rc6 voltage to 450

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:34:01 -0700
> Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
>
>> BIOS should be setting the minimum voltage for rc6 to be 450mV. Old or
>> buggy BIOSen may not be doing this, so we correct it for them. Ideally
>> customers should update the BIOS as only it would know the optimal
>> values for the platform, so we leave that fact as a DRM_ERROR for the
>> user to see.
>>
>> Unfortunately this isn't fixing any of the issues it was targeted to
>> fix, but it is documented that we must do it.

Yeah drop the DRM_ERROR, it should be DRM_INFO at worst, and
non-existant at best.

Who gives a shit if you have to upgrade your BIOS, lots of vendors
won't provide updates and I don't see Intel doing anything to solve
that.

Dave.