[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Rip out SUPPORTS_EDP

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:04:43PM -0300, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> 2013/9/21 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>:
> > It only controls the setting of the vbt.edp_support variable, which in
> > turn only controls one debug output plus can also force-disable the
> > lvds output.
> >
> > Since the value only restricted this logic to mobile ilk there's the
> > slight risk that this will break lvds on desktop ilk or on snb/ivb
> > platforms. But with the vbt it's better when we know what's going on
> > here, so let's rip it out and see what happens.
> 
> I think this is a little bit too risky, but the patch does what it
> says in the box and also mentions the risk... I was going to give a
> Reviewed-by tag and leave the merge-or-not-merge question to the
> maintainer, but I noticed the patch is already even merged (by
> accident?).

I was lazy and didn't create a seperate branch for it ;-) Can I still
smash your r-b on top?

> Are we aware of any real-world machines with eDP + LVDS?

I haven't seen any of those. What has been observed in the wild is lvds +
sdvo lvds, but I've never seen edp + some other panel anywhere ...
-Daniel
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