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

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:15:18PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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.

fyi, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73154
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre