linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] drm/i915: register LVDS connector even if we can't get a panel mode

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Message-ID: <20120806122317.GA11339@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:23:17 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Heider <andreas@...tr.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] drm/i915: register LVDS connector even if we
 can't get a panel mode

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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