[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/radeon: disable ss on DP for DCE3.x" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    drm/radeon: disable ss on DP for DCE3.x

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.18.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 1c5b20c664058eaa61676a8b947daa959194f8a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:47:05 -0500
Subject: drm/radeon: disable ss on DP for DCE3.x

commit d8e24525094200601236fa64a54cf73e3d682f2e upstream.

Seems to cause problems with certain DP monitors.

Bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40699

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
index ef32bf6..b997e79 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
@@ -938,11 +938,14 @@ static bool atombios_crtc_prepare_pll(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_display_
 							radeon_atombios_get_ppll_ss_info(rdev,
 											 &radeon_crtc->ss,
 											 ATOM_DP_SS_ID1);
-				} else
+				} else {
 					radeon_crtc->ss_enabled =
 						radeon_atombios_get_ppll_ss_info(rdev,
 										 &radeon_crtc->ss,
 										 ATOM_DP_SS_ID1);
+				}
+				/* disable spread spectrum on DCE3 DP */
+				radeon_crtc->ss_enabled = false;
 			}
 			break;
 		case ATOM_ENCODER_MODE_LVDS:
--
1.8.3.2