Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/opregion: work around buggy firmware that provides 8+ output devices

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On Mon, 08 Dec 2014, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2014, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We have a new bug report that has the same problem:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88941
>>
>> The posted patch solves the problem. I know it's not perfect, but it
>> doesn't seem it would do any harm to existing systems so should be safe.
>>
>> Better, if someone can shed some light on how this should be properly
>> handled, that would be great.
>
> There was a bug report that I can't find right now that had a similar
> problem. I wrote a few patches, even somewhat polished ones (that I now
> pushed to [1] for reference) to handle extended DIDL. Unfortunately this
> didn't help the bug reporter because the right one was beyond the
> extended DIDL too, so I don't think I even sent these to the list.
>
> Anyway, just one more data point. This might help your reporter, so
> worth a try. But it doesn't solve everything.

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jani/drm/log/?h=didl


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