Re: [PATCH v2] i915: Add option to bypass vbt table.

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On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:44:35AM +0100, Mathias.Froehlich@xxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Mathias Fröhlich <Mathias.Froehlich@xxxxxx>
> 
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Froehlich <Mathias.Froehlich@xxxxxx>

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?
-Daniel
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