[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Short-circuit no-op vga_set_state()

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Dec 17 12:45:45 CET 2013


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:21:27AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > Touching the VGA registers risks a hard machine hang, at least on this
> > ivb machine after removing a conflicting efifb. This is more than likely
> > related to the discovery that VGA IO decode on the more recent PCH
> > platforms is terminally broken.
> 
> Please double check the config space address. At a glance, it looks like
> we should be using SNB_GMCH_CTRL since SNB. Might explain the issues?

Hmm, indeed. This bit is at a different location on SNB, but it is
locked. Which is where all the vgaarb madness began last time.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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