From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752620Ab0CSVFA (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:05:00 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-313.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:36882 "HELO outbound-mail-313.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752056Ab0CSVE7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:04:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=kSmKfbUc4hcMvwln7T3XMcH2pY1hUd44m4+emyBFJc1/5ENXTpWOoAaWdBSx133OxdT4fTkpo4yW7DY/OdxxGN4zXtkFnSRrMNy3IJXPMt/VPJsoM/Xjli1Km8uJkEBl; Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:05:03 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes To: Eric Anholt Cc: Surbhi Palande , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Chris Wilson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie, yakui.zhao@intel.com, zhenyuw@linux.intel.com, Len Brown Subject: Re: ACPI _LID failures Message-ID: <20100319140503.5ac6e061@jbarnes-piketon> In-Reply-To: <87iq8sqbih.fsf@pollan.anholt.net> References: <89k83ahv05c@azsmga001.ch.intel.com> <20100319125320.22d8b25d@jbarnes-piketon> <87iq8sqbih.fsf@pollan.anholt.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.110.194.140 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:53:10 -0700 Eric Anholt wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:53:20 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:32:41 +0200 > > Surbhi Palande wrote: > > > > > The following two patches are quirks that blacklist bios which report > > > incorrect lid status. These are bioses for machines with a 900 GM. > > > The first one is tested by Ubuntu users and the second one isn't. > > > Further testing will be appreciated. > > > > > > > > > Surbhi Palande (2): > > > drm/i915: blacklist lid status: Sony VGN-BX196VP > > > drm/i915: blacklist lid status: Elite Co. G335 > > > > > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ > > > 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > Patches look ok to me. Len was curious about whether some recent ACPI > > EC fixes will fix some of our lid detection bugs though. > > > > Len, is there any particular patch or version people should try? > > Unless ACPI is going to magically become more reliable at the lid > method, I think we should abandon using it on generations where it > fails. See other patch I submitted -- anyone care to ack it? Well, that was the hope. Len said they've fixed EC bugs in the past only to find that several ACPI methods they assumed were broken suddenly started working.... -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center