[Nouveau] nouveau Macbook EDID fix upstreaming...

Daniel J Blueman daniel at quora.org
Fri Aug 17 01:33:25 PDT 2012


It looks like Ryan's Nouveau patch [1,2] to get the I2C working for
EDID (thus modelines) is crucial for avoiding the Nvidia binary
drivers on MacbookPro 2012s.

Any plans/chance for it to be upstreamed to eg 3.6-rc3?

Many thanks,
  Daniel

--- [1]

diff -urNp a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c	2012-07-08 22:48:05.589828510 -0500
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c	2012-07-15 00:28:18.578864693 -0500
@@ -6461,6 +6461,9 @@ nouveau_run_vbios_init(struct drm_device
 		}
 	}

+	if (!bios->execute)
+		nouveau_gpio_reset(dev);
+
 	return ret;
 }

[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51971
-- 
Daniel J Blueman


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