Re: [PATCH v5] Support for ns2501-DVO

Daniel Vetter
2012-07-19T12:40:19Z

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:20:11PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> >>As a side question, have you been able to look into the video
> >>overlay hang I reported lately? I haven't
> >>had the time yet to update the i915 driver from the latest
> >>repository, but the version from three weeks
> >>ago hung completely when enabling overlays - the one before worked
> >>at least *once*, and hung the second
> >>time an overlay was created.
> >Hm, that could be related to the pipe A quirk - if the pipe A isn't
> >enabled, we enable it while switching the overlay. But only on i830M, so
> >this code has a rather high chance of being untested and hence broken.
> >Unfortunately I have to rebase my modeset rework on top of your dvo
> >branch, otherwise you don't have much to test. I'll try to get around to
> >that in the next few days.
>
> I wouldn't need the DVO patch integrated into that since the overlay
> problem arises on two machines,
> the Fujitsu Siemens (requiring the DVO patch) and the IBM R31 (of
> which the DVO is already supported
> out of the box).

Cool, so if you've got time to test it, please try out the modeset-rework
branch from my personal git repo at

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm

Thanks, Daniel