[stable] drm/i915 patches fix Latitude E6410 video issues.

[Brad Figg]

On 07/28/2010 11:45 AM, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>
> Please consider the following upstream commits to stable 2.6.33.y
>
> 1. drm/i915: add PANEL_UNLOCK_REGS definition
> SHAID: 4a655f043160eeae447efd3be297b6b4c397a640
> 2. drm/i915: make sure eDP panel is turned on
> SHAID: 9934c132989d5c488d2e15188220ce240960ce96
>
> Depends on
>
> 3. drm/i915: Rename intel_output to intel_encoder.
> SHAID: 21d40d37eca86872f2bf0af995809ebdef25c9d9
>
>
> These patches fix video issues on Dell Latitude E6410. Reported in bugs
>
> http://launchpad.net/bugs/578673
> http://launchpad.net/bugs/561802
>
> The patches apply cleanly to 2.6.33.y (see attachments), and they were tested against the latest Lucid kernel and reported to fix the 2 issues. Kernel was tested by user community, as well as, on hardware available at Canonical.
>
> Regarding the issue with dim back-light on resume, Jesse wrote to me saying he suspects some other agent like firmware might be a suspect in zeroing it out before the driver saves it, ie driver seems to do the right thing.
>
> Regards
> Manoj Iyer
>

I'm Ack-ing the first two patches and Nak-ing the third. I'm not sure
stable upstream will take the third and it will be a thorn in our side
if only we are carrying it.

Brad
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