Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Aug 2011 13:01:28 -0700 | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/4] drm/i915: Leave LVDS registers unlocked |
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On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:53:31 -0700 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:49:54 -0700, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote: > > > Yep, it's safe and possible to do on pre-PCH as well. For panel > > fitting we do need to do an actual power cycle when going from > > non-native back to native iirc, but we can still leave them unlocked so > > we don't have to worry about the lock/unlock sequence everywhere. > > Hidden in the unlock patch was a call to intel_lvds_disable from > intel_lvds_prepare -- that *always* turns off the LVDS for mode > setting. Do we care enough about LVDS mode setting performance that we > should try leave the optimization in place that doesn't turn off the > backlight when switching between modes?
We hate flicker right? But generally yes it's safer to just turn it off all the time.
-- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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