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Message-ID: <20110315134311.GA5892@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:43:11 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
Cc: Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] ACPI/Intel: Rework Opregion support
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:40:59PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:32:40PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Opregion is one mechanism to provide VBT - it doesn't define it.
>
> Then let me repeat that I haven't seen anything in the VBT tables of
> the gma500-using netbook I have that didn't seem to be parsed
> correctly by the current gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c code and its
> friends. Have a look at it if you want.
gma600 *certainly* has a bunch of additional functionality. It may be
that this is code that can be split out in a reasonable manner, but
there's been sufficient fragility here that I think doing it at this
stage for the benefit of a driver in staging doesn't buy us a great
deal.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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