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From: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Supporting fused display configurations
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:19:20 -0800
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 02:21:08PM +0000, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 02:09:33PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Patches look fine. Just relying on fuse registers being correct is like
> > relying on vbt being correct, fraught with anxiety.
> 
> Well, I believe those bits are directly reflecting the fuses/straps
> programmed (the sames that will actually disable hw), so it should be
> better than VBT. On the other hand, that's the reason why I only check
> from IVB on and not from ILK to not take unecessary risks on platforms
> with no known fused config.

I'm surprised by this. We had a semi-lengthy mail on the matter
internally, and ISTR there was no way to actually make this work for all
cases. I guess I need to go re-read that.

> 
> In any case, if someone with such a device could test the series :)

IMHO the patches can't be merged until it can be verified. If you want
to call that a nak-until-then on patch 6, do. I'd much rather have a
dynamic solution like this though.

> 
> -- 
> Damien

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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center