On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:33:25PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman
wrote:> It looks like Ryan's Nouveau patch [1,2] to get the I2C working for
> EDID (thus modelines) is crucial for avoiding the Nvidia binary
> drivers on MacbookPro 2012s.
>
> Any plans/chance for it to be upstreamed to eg 3.6-rc3?
Not at this stage, no. I don't believe this is likely to be the correct
fix. I should have access to one of the new mbp systems in the near future and
I'll investigate it further then.
Cheers,
Ben.
>
> Many thanks,
> Daniel
>
> --- [1]
>
> diff -urNp a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c 2012-07-08 22:48:05.589828510
-0500
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c 2012-07-15 00:28:18.578864693
-0500
> @@ -6461,6 +6461,9 @@ nouveau_run_vbios_init(struct drm_device
> }
> }
>
> + if (!bios->execute)
> + nouveau_gpio_reset(dev);
> +
> return ret;
> }
>
> [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51971
> --
> Daniel J Blueman
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