This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/amd/display: Revert FEC check in validation to the 5.17-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-amd-display-revert-fec-check-in-validation.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a37e498d6e503c5d6f91e01f1a7c04c83fdc19cb Author: Martin Leung <Martin.Leung@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 18 11:12:36 2022 -0400 drm/amd/display: Revert FEC check in validation [ Upstream commit b2075fce104b88b789c15ef1ed2b91dc94198e26 ] why and how: causes failure on install on certain machines Reviewed-by: George Shen <George.Shen@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Leung <Martin.Leung@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Daniel Wheeler <daniel.wheeler@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c index 78e17a4af4ab..62bc6ce88753 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c @@ -1495,10 +1495,6 @@ bool dc_validate_seamless_boot_timing(const struct dc *dc, if (!link->link_enc->funcs->is_dig_enabled(link->link_enc)) return false; - /* Check for FEC status*/ - if (link->link_enc->funcs->fec_is_active(link->link_enc)) - return false; - enc_inst = link->link_enc->funcs->get_dig_frontend(link->link_enc); if (enc_inst == ENGINE_ID_UNKNOWN)