Re: Baytrail/T (ASUS T100 etc) regression from 3.13 onwards

[One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:45:24 -0800
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:28:12 +0000
> One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > O> > According to the reg dumps, this is actually a MIPI panel we're failing
> > > > to bring up properly.  We're working on that issue, but in the
> > > > meantime, maybe something like the below would work for you?
> > > 
> > > A module paramater to fix a bug?  Ugh, that's almost worse than just
> > > reverting the original patch, right?
> > > 
> > > Please don't do this, the distros will hate you even more than they
> > > currently do :)
> > 
> > Can we just turn hot plug detection off if a panel is present for now ?
> 
> Looks like another option would be to add an 'e' to your forced boot
> line.  That should prevent the detection stuff from running.  E.g. in
> your case:
> video=VGA-1:1366x768e
> 
> There's some info on this in Documentation/fb/modedb.txt

Confirmed, tested and bug plus relevant people updated.

Thanks

Alan