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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: ignore pipe select bit when checking for LVDS register initialization
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 03:26:00PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:46:58PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > > The Lenovo Thinkpad T410 has the LVDS_PIPEB_SELECT bit set in the LVDS
> > > register when booted with the lid closed, even though the LVDS hasn't
> > > really been initialized. Ignore this bit so that the VBT value will be
> > > used instead.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> > Queued for -next, thanks for the patch. Chris had some reservations about
> > the sanity of this patch, but given that it works around bios-insanity I'm
> > gonna just take this chance to stab myself with lvds-machines blowing up
> > left and right ;-)
>
> Let's hope that doesn't happen ;)
>
> I do find myself wondering though whether it might be better to prefer
> the value from the VBT whenever there's one available, and only rely on
> the actual register value as a fallback, since the bios can't be trusted
> to initialize the register. I'm pretty ignorant about all this graphics
> stuff though; I assume there's a reason it isn't done this way?

The usual reasoning is that if it's in the register, it's the value that
makes something show up on the screen and hence has a higher change of
being right. Yep, BIOS routinely store total garbage in vbt (or the newer
OpRegion) and somehow fix that up when copying things to the hw :(
Obviously there's also the other case where the hw values aren't set up,
in which case we try to try to fall back to vbt values.
-Daniel
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