[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: allow re-use BIOS connector config for initial fbdev config v2

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Ville Syrjälä
<ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> BTW another funky issue I noticed about the video= option is that if you
> specify a mode that's not part of the set of modes added by
> drm_add_modes_noedid(), then fbcon will happily use the specified mode,
> but when X starts the mode gets pruned from the mode list. It would
> seem better to keep the user specified mode on the list, no matter what.

Yeah, I think we need to move the cmdline parsing out of the fbdev
helper into crtc helpers so that this kind of stuff Just Works. Then
we could also add the cmdline mode as the first preferred one.
-Daniel
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