Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] drm/i915: register LVDS connector even if wecan't get a panel mode

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Aug 06 2012 - 08:23:15 EST


On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:40:16PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> As long as it's only apple shipping multi-gpu machines with
> broken/non-existing vbt, I'll happily stomach the quirk list entries.
> They're bad, but imo the lesser evil.

Doing this via quirks means that we'll always be broken on the hardware
at the point where it ships. Implementing the functionality means we
stand some chance of working out of the box.

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