Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 20:38 +0100 schrieb Daniel Vetter: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:44:35AM +0100, Mathias.Froehlich at gmx.net wrote: > > From: Mathias Fr?hlich <Mathias.Froehlich at web.de> > > > > Add an option to skip reading the mode entries from > > the vbt bios tables. > > This change enables the use of displays where the vbt table just > > contains inappropriate values, but either the vesa defaults or > > the video=... modes do something sensible with the attached display. > > > > Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> > > Signed-off-by: Mathias Froehlich <Mathias.Froehlich at web.de> > > Can you elaborate a bit on why this is required? Is this for a machine > (like the chrome machines) that just lack a vbios? Or do we fail to parse > the vbt in some way?
Pasted from Mathias? message with the first patch iteration. Am Mittwoch, den 29.02.2012, 20:34 +0100 schrieb Mathias Fr?hlich: > Attached is a small change to i915 that fixes a customer case that I had in > my > day job. > > The problem happens with an embedded board that contains vbt bios tables that > do not match the attached display. > Using this change and the appropriate kernel boot command line they are able > to > use an otherwise completely unusable secondary display on that embedded board. > > Please review. Thanks, Paul -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20120301/8ff5caab/attachment.pgp>
