[RFC PATCH 0/5] i915 changes for hybrid graphics support on Macbooks

From: Seth Forshee
Date: Fri Aug 03 2012 - 12:02:23 EST


The following patches are part of a larger series I've been working on
to get vga_switcheroo working on hybrid graphics Macbooks. Some of these
machines are not providing a VBT, and since the LVDS panel is connected
to the discrete GPU at boot we can't get a mode for the panel during
initialization. As a result the LVDS connector is not registered with
DRM, and graphics switching is not possible.

These patches fix this issue by registering the connector even if we
can't get a mode for the panel. If we don't have an EDID we check again
from the vga_switcheroo reprobe callback.

This is working, except for the framebuffer console which isn't
displaying when switched to the integrated GPU, which I still need to
debug. I'm not entirely sure whether or not this is the correct approach
though, so I wanted to go ahead and get some feedback on the patches now
to make sure I'm on the right track.

Thanks,
Seth


Andreas Heider (1):
drm/i915: Add support for vga_switcheroo reprobe

Seth Forshee (4):
drm/i915: separate out code to get EDID from LVDS panel
drm/i915: register LVDS connector even if we can't get a panel mode
drm/i915: make intel_lvds_get_edid() more robust
drm/i915: check LVDS for EDID on GPU switches

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 9 ++-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c | 156 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
3 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

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