This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/edid: add quirk for BPC in Samsung NP700G7A-S01PL notebook
to the 3.12-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-edid-add-quirk-for-bpc-in-samsung-np700g7a-s01pl-notebook.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 49d45a31b71d7d9da74485922bdb63faf3dc9684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 13:22:42 +0100
Subject: drm/edid: add quirk for BPC in Samsung NP700G7A-S01PL notebook
From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 49d45a31b71d7d9da74485922bdb63faf3dc9684 upstream.
This bug in EDID was exposed by:
commit eccea7920cfb009c2fa40e9ecdce8c36f61cab66
Author: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 26 15:12:54 2012 -0400
drm/radeon/kms: improve bpc handling (v2)
Which resulted in kind of regression in 3.5. This fixes
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70934
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
#define EDID_QUIRK_DETAILED_SYNC_PP (1 << 6)
/* Force reduced-blanking timings for detailed modes */
#define EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_REDUCED_BLANKING (1 << 7)
+/* Force 8bpc */
+#define EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_8BPC (1 << 8)
struct detailed_mode_closure {
struct drm_connector *connector;
@@ -128,6 +130,9 @@ static struct edid_quirk {
/* Medion MD 30217 PG */
{ "MED", 0x7b8, EDID_QUIRK_PREFER_LARGE_75 },
+
+ /* Panel in Samsung NP700G7A-S01PL notebook reports 6bpc */
+ { "SEC", 0xd033, EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_8BPC },
};
/*
@@ -3236,6 +3241,9 @@ int drm_add_edid_modes(struct drm_connec
drm_add_display_info(edid, &connector->display_info);
+ if (quirks & EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_8BPC)
+ connector->display_info.bpc = 8;
+
return num_modes;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_add_edid_modes);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zajec5@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/drm-edid-add-quirk-for-bpc-in-samsung-np700g7a-s01pl-notebook.patch
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