Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: add fallback override/firmware EDID modes workaround

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On Sat, 08 Jun 2019, Paul Wise <pabs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-06-08 at 13:10 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>
>> I've tested these two patches on top of Linux v5.2-rc3 and the EDID
>> override works correctly on an Intel Ironlake GPU with a monitor that
>> lost its EDID a while ago.
>
> While testing I noticed a couple of things:
>
> While everything the GUI is the correct resolution, GNOME is unable to
> identify the monitor vendor or model. This is a regression from the
> previous edid override functionality. It looks like this is because the
> edid file in /sys is not populated with the EDID override data.

Right, I've added a call to drm_connector_update_edid_property() in v2
to address this issue.

> I got a crash due to null pointer dereference at one point, I'll try to
> track down when this happens.

Can't think of why this would happen; the backtrace might offer clues.

Thanks for testing!

BR,
Jani.

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center



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