On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:03:08 +0000 Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:51:30 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote: > > Somehow the BIOS manages to screw things up when copying the VBT > > around, because the one we scrap from the VBIOS rom actually works. > > > > Cc: stable at kernel.org > > Tested-by: Markus Heinz <markus.heinz at uni-dortmund.de> > > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28812 > > Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> > > That completely disproves my theory that the BIOS writers that went to > the extra trouble to implement the OpRegion specification would be more > likely to get it right and to make the information stored there accurate. > > Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> On some platforms OpRegion is the *only* way to get the VBT reasonably... but quirking around broken ones is fine (though I suspect we're not doing something right; the OpRegion VBT ought to be fine). -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/attachments/20120328/1a4f000e/attachment.pgp>
