[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "Skip intel_crt_init for Dell XPS 8700" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 21 09:32:50 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Skip intel_crt_init for Dell XPS 8700

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 9cc63e30e37d7f70d6896cc055cabead776d0412 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giacomo Comes <comes at naic.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:13:55 -0400
Subject: Skip intel_crt_init for Dell XPS 8700

commit 10b6ee4a87811a110cb01eaca01eb04da6801baf upstream.

The Dell XPS 8700 has a onboard Display port and HDMI port and no VGA port.
The call intel_crt_init freeze the machine, so skip such call.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73559
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Comes <comes at naic.edu>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c
index 6aa6ebd..f88398f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c
@@ -764,6 +764,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id intel_no_crt[] = {
 			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "ZGB"),
 		},
 	},
+	{
+		.callback = intel_no_crt_dmi_callback,
+		.ident = "DELL XPS 8700",
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "XPS 8700"),
+		},
+	},
 	{ }
 };

--
1.9.1





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