[Natty-SRU] Lenovo x420s panel display corruption when mode-setting

Jose Plans jose.plans at canonical.com
Mon Oct 3 13:35:08 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 14:23 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:19:55PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

[...]

> Ok, having talked to Jose a bit on IRC I am now able to answer my own
> question.  Actually this patch is the merge of _two_ upstream commits
> only retaining one of the descriptions.

[...]

> For me this should have been submitted as two patched as clearly the
> change in the first one is a key component.  From these discusssions it
> seems that this improves things from 100% failure to ~10% failure on
> boot.  It looks a lot like the changes in the second patch, such as
> waiting for vblank on enabling the pipes fixes that final 10%.

Thanks for the replies Andy, I will get the following done asap:

 - different patches for clean inclusion
 - also test on other than Ironlake/SandyBridge.

And reply back to the list,

      Jose





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