On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Bruno Prémont <bonbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bjorn, > > What is missing to get these two patches pushed to Linus? Sorry, I've been working on some other regressions and overlooked this one. If you open a bugzilla report and mark it as a regression, that will help keep this on my radar. Bjorn > On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:47:50 +0200 Bruno Prémont wrote: >> On Tue, 26 August 2014 Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Bruno Prémont wrote: >> > > With commit 20cde694027e boot video device detection was moved from >> > > efifb to x86 and ia64 pci/fixup.c. >> > > >> > > For dual-GPU Apple computers above change represents a regression as >> > > code in efifb did forcefully override vga_default_device while the >> > > merge did not (vgaarb happens prior to PCI fixup). >> > > >> > > To improve on initial device selection by vgaarb (it cannot know if >> > > PCI device not behind bridges see/decode legacy VGA I/O or not), move >> > > the screen_info based check from pci_video_fixup to vgaarb's init >> > > function and use it to refine/override decision taken while adding >> > > the individual PCI VGA devices. >> > > This way PCI fixup has no reason to adjust vga_default_device >> > > anymore but can depend on its value for flagging shadowed VBIOS. >> > > >> > > This has the nice benefit of removing duplicated code but does >> > > introduce a #if defined() block in vgaarb. >> > > Not all architectures have screen_info and would cause compile to >> > > fail without it. >> > > >> > > Reported-By: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@xxxxxxxxx> >> > > CC: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > > CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.5+ >> > > Signed-off-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > --- >> > > Andreas, does this work properly for you, including the improvement >> > > on i915 complaint about VBIOS going from KERN_ERR to KERN_INFO? >> > Yep, thanks! >> > >> > > >> > > Other arches using PCI and vgaarb that have screen_info may want >> > > to be added to the #if defined() block or even introduce a new >> > > CONFIG_HAVE_SCREEN_INFO or similar... >> >> Bjorn, can you queue these two patches, probably going through -next >> for a week and passing them to Linus for -rc4, adding Andreas's Tested-by >> to Patch 1/2 v2? >> >> Thanks, >> Bruno _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
