linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.7-rc6

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Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:32:42 +0100
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
To:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...math.se>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.7-rc6

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se> wrote:
>> >> My apologies for the long delay in answering, I've somehow mixed up
>> >> different bugreports and thought I've sent you a patch to test
>> >> already. Anyway, please test
>> >>
>> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1728111/
>> >
>> >     Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>
>>
>> Can you please boot with drm.debug=0xe added to your kernel cmdline
>> with that patch applied and attach the full dmesg?
>
> Are you looking for something in particular? The patch obviously works
> because edp_bpp is never set. The reason seems to be
>
> [    1.634759] [drm:intel_parse_bios], VBT signature missing
>
> In the source, a few lines above that message, we have something that
> looks suspciciously like an off-by-one error:
>
>         /* Scour memory looking for the VBT signature */
>         for (i = 0; i + 4 < size; i++) {
>
> If that matters or not, I do not know. Any more tests would have to
> wait until tomorrow.

Yeah, the utter lack of a vbt fits very nicely, thanks for checking,
I've merged the patch into drm-intel-fixes and will forward it for
inclusion into 3.7 rsn.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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