Re: [PATCH 04/21] drm/i915: Only use VBT panel mode on eDP if noEDID is found

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Fri Sep 30 2011 - 12:32:05 EST


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:09:36PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> We're going to assume that EDID is more reliable than the VBT tables
> for eDP panels, which is notably true on MacBook machines where the
> VBT contains completely bogus data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ok, this is way over my head, just checked whether the patch does what it
claims to - nice exercise in reading dp modeset code ;-)
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
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