Hello,
I confirm this patch work apply to kernel 3.6-rc1
Best regards
On 10/08/2012 11:10, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> This has originally been introduced to not oversubscribe the dp links
> in
>
> commit 885a5fb5b120a5c7e0b3baad7b0feb5a89f76c18
> Author: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw at linux.intel.com>
> Date: Tue Jan 12 05:38:31 2010 +0800
>
> drm/i915: fix pixel color depth setting on eDP
>
> Since then we've fixed up the dp link bandwidth calculation code for
> code and should now automatically fall back to 6bpc dithering. So this
> is unnecessary.
>
> Furthermore it seems to break the new MacbookPro with retina display,
> hence let's just rip this out.
>
> Reported-by: Benoit Gschwind <gschwind at gnu-log.net>
> Cc: Benoit Gschwind <gschwind at gnu-log.net>
> Cc: Francois Rigaut <frigaut at gmail.com>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>
> --
>
> Testing feedback highgly welcome, and thanks for Benoit for finding
> out that the bpc computations are busted.
> -Daniel
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 11 -----------
> 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> index bddb290..ddd4db3 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> @@ -3755,17 +3755,6 @@ static bool intel_choose_pipe_bpp_dither(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
> continue;
> }
>
> - if (intel_encoder->type == INTEL_OUTPUT_EDP) {
> - /* Use VBT settings if we have an eDP panel */
> - unsigned int edp_bpc = dev_priv->edp.bpp / 3;
> -
> - if (edp_bpc < display_bpc) {
> - DRM_DEBUG_KMS("clamping display bpc (was %d) to eDP (%d)\n", display_bpc, edp_bpc);
> - display_bpc = edp_bpc;
> - }
> - continue;
> - }
> -
> /* Not one of the known troublemakers, check the EDID */
> list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list,
> head) {
