Re: i915: lvds panel always blank when booted with lid closed

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:36:00AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> When I boot my Thinkpad T410 in a docking station with the lid closed,
> the lvds panel remains blank even when this output is active. This
> happens up to and including 3.5-rc2.
> 
> I've determined that this happens because lvds isn't being initialized
> by the bios when I boot this way, and booting with lvds_channel_mode=2
> fixes the issue. I see that there's logic in is_dual_link_lvds()
> intended to detect this situation, but it's failing because the T410 has
> the LVDS_PIPEB_SELECT bit set. The simple patch below fixes my machine
> by masking off this bit when determining whether or not lvds was
> initialized by the bios.
> 
> I'm not sure though whether or not it's correct to expect that this bit
> might be set when lvds hasn't been initialized. The alternative seems to
> be quirking this machine as is done for some Macbooks. What is the
> correct solution?

Patch looks correct, but can you please change the mask from PIPEB to the
already exsting LVDS_PIPE_MASK? This way it's clearer what's going on.

Thanks, Daniel
> 
> Thanks,
> Seth
> 
> 
> From 250904ac95cda7630cdd8339724e3c8feceeb586 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:52:14 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: ignore LVDS_PIPEB_SELECT when checking for LVDS
>  register initialization
> 
> The Lenovo Thinkpad T410 has this bit set in the LVDS register when
> booted with the lid closed, even though the LVDS hasn't really been
> initialized. Ignore this bit so that the VBT value will be used instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> index e0aa064..f81f249 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static bool is_dual_link_lvds(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>  		 * register is uninitialized.
>  		 */
>  		val = I915_READ(reg);
> -		if (!(val & ~LVDS_DETECTED))
> +		if (!(val & ~(LVDS_PIPEB_SELECT | LVDS_DETECTED)))
>  			val = dev_priv->bios_lvds_val;
>  		dev_priv->lvds_val = val;
>  	}
> 

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