On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:02:19AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > Some Apple hybrid graphics machines do not have the LVDS panel connected > to the integrated GPU at boot and also do not supply a VBT. The LVDS > connector is not registered as a result, making it impossible to support > graphics switching. > > This patch changes intel_lvds_init() to register the connector even if > we can't find any panel modes. This makes it necessary to always check > intel_lvds->fixed_mode before use, as it could now be NULL.
This one kind of sucks. I think adding a quirk for this situation would be justifiable, rather than doing it for all devices. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
