[Intel-gfx] More fastboot bits

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:15:32 +0200
Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 13:31 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > This one adds some extra checks on top of Chris's last set:
> >   - check for panel fit modes when inheriting from the BIOS
> >   - update pfit state at pipe_set_base time
> 
> I missed this version of the patchset and reviewed the previous one :/
> Sending it with a v2 subject prefix with a proper In-reply-to header
> would've been nice, consider the high traffic on this list.
> 
> Some of the comments from that review are still valid, so I'll copy them
> over.

Great, thanks.  Sorry about the confusion, reposts like this are a bad
habit from a lower volume mailing list. :)  I'll endeavor to improve
myself.

> 
> > It also changes the mode set vs flip checking to include the non-fb case
> > (e.g. if the BIOS fb was too small for the native mode), since we might
> > still be able to flip in that case.
> > 
> > Finally, it includes a clock_get routine for ilk+.  I'd appreciate if
> > someone could test this out on a machine where VBIOS supports the native
> > panel mode, so the kernel can boot from the boot loader in the native
> > mode.  In that case, it should actually fastboot and avoid the whole
> > mode set/panel power sequence.
> 
> My ilk doesn't seem to start with a native mode, so can't test it there.
> Would it be possible to test this with reloading the module?

Yeah, that should also work, but I definitely haven't tested it as much.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center