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 5.10-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-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a1aa5686c44e484d4441fc7dafc7207a0c9f644b
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 ac5323596c65..93f5229c303e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
@@ -1173,10 +1173,6 @@ 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)
