Re: [REGRESSION] i915: failure to interoperate with HP ZR30w using an X230

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 11:21:58AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> Well, we know for sure that fdi link training is broken - it doesn't match
> at all what the spec says we should do. I've been working on this lately,
> since in quite a few circumstances the link train fails without the
> relevent bits indicating so. While testing I've also noticed that this
> entire thing is highly timing dependent, e.g. denpending upon which
> desktop is running and which tool I use to change the configuration it
> fails or succeeds.

So it is still (somewhat) broken in 3.7-rcX?  Certainly it seems to be
better (at least for me) than what was in 3.6.3.  Or are you saying I
may have just gotten lucky?  :-)

> So I have no suggestions for what could help your system and what should
> get backported, since the current code is still broken.

Thanks for your response and for your work in making the i915 driver
better.  I really appreciate your efforts.

Cheers,

						- Ted