Patch "drm/edid: add quirk for BPC in Samsung NP700G7A-S01PL notebook" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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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 3.10-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-edid-add-quirk-for-bpc-in-samsung-np700g7a-s01pl-notebook.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 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 },
 };
 
 /*
@@ -2955,6 +2960,9 @@ 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-3.10/drm-edid-add-quirk-for-bpc-in-samsung-np700g7a-s01pl-notebook.patch
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