[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/bxt: Fix eDP panel power save/restore

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 03:41:29PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 08:31:45AM +0530, Kannan, Vandana wrote:
> >> When I submitted the PPS patch in April, I got an input from Jani to
> >> not make changes in i915_suspend.c as it was to become obsolete.
> >> Below mail for your reference.
> >> 
> >> Jani,
> >> Does your initial comment still hold good?
> >
> > I don't think not touching i915_suspend.c at all is an option since that
> > means that the current code will try to read/write registers that simply
> > don't exist on the platform.  Based on Jani's comment, maybe we should
> > just be adding BXT to the list of platforms we don't do any PP
> > save/restore on?
> 
> Not touching the registers in i915_suspend.c for BXT was what I meant,
> but probably failed at expressing it. The encoder/connector hooks should
> cover this, and if not, should be updated to cover this. The big hammer
> suspend/resume in i915_suspend.c is oblivious to most modeset state and
> is unable to do anything clever.

Hm, I thought it died already? What's keeping the pp code in
i915_suspend.c on life-support?
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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