On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:38:17 -0700 Eric Anholt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:36 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >From 8ad1bd63c097f9f6948439c1ce7c0b17b8caa64a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > > >2001 > > From: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:31:39 -0700 > > Subject: [PATCH] drm: Cache the EDID value for a short time in i915 > > > > during the boot process we have several places that want to make > > sure we have EDID information in a short time. An EDID probe for me > > takes 0.23 seconds, so doing multiple of them is not very nice. > > > > This patch caches the EDID result for upto 1 second to avoid > > repeated delays. > > > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> > > I'm holding off on this one. I'm applying the LVDS caching (makes > complete sense) but I think someone needs to take a serious look at > the requests for modes on outputs by the kernel and be sure that we've > separated "I want you go to reprobe and then tell me the current data" > from "tell me what the current set of modes is." > > Once that's done, I expect this patch goes away. for me the caching patch obsoletes this one, so absolutely fine by me. > -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
