Re: [PATCH] i915: initialize CADL in opregion

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:58:54PM +0200, Lekensteyn wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2012 13:22:02 Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > > - When loading the i915.ko with the CADL patch the screen went black
> > > (like at boot), but with some excessive vt-switching and X restarting
> > > I've managed to light it up. Although it is flickery as hell,
> > > especially the lower part of the screen. And if the screen is somewhat
> > > stable, I just get the upper part of the screen duplicated in the
> > > lower part.
> > 
> > Just a small note: Reloading i915.ko without the CADL patch fixes
> > things. No idea how that could happen ...
> > -Daniel
> 
> Does CADL gets reinitialised to zeroes on module load? (I think so, but could 
> you verify that by checking the contents of that field after loading the module 
> w/ and w/o the CADL patch?)

Yeah, the CADL is cleared out again.
-Daniel
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