[Intel-gfx] [RFC 09/12] drm/i915/config: Add VBT settings configuration.

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:37:10AM -0800, Bob Paauwe wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:57:48 +0100
> Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > As Jani points out we already have vbt headaches, it would be good if we
> > only have those once ;-)
> > -Daniel
> 
> I've been trying to think of a better way but not really coming up with
> something that scales well. EMGD took the approach of create
> configuration for only those values that we had customer requests for.
> And that was primarily just the panel power up/down timing sequence and
> some backlight control. We never tried to replicate everything that
> could be set via vbt.

If it's only a very few select things we could just add them as atomic
properties to connectors. No need for anything special, and we could even
use that to debug panel issues at runtime.

We need a lot of the dp things already anyway for the dp validation stuff,
but since that was debug Dave shot down my idea to just go with props. But
here we have another user, and this one will have full abi compat
requirements. So no longer any reasons to not go with props imo.

Or else we just smash an entire vbt into acpi, for my that's ok (we need
to deal with vbt anyway).
-Daniel
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