On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:03:08 +0000
Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:51:30 +0100, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Somehow the BIOS manages to screw things up when copying the VBT
> > around, because the one we scrap from the VBIOS rom actually works.
> > 
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Tested-by: Markus Heinz <[email protected]>
> > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28812
> > Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> 
> That completely disproves my theory that the BIOS writers that went to
> the extra trouble to implement the OpRegion specification would be more
> likely to get it right and to make the information stored there accurate.
> 
> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>

On some platforms OpRegion is the *only* way to get the VBT
reasonably... but quirking around broken ones is fine (though I suspect
we're not doing something right; the OpRegion VBT ought to be fine).

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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