[PATCH 0/2] [lucid] LP#538377 -- Radeon HDMI output turns off randomly

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Thu Apr 8 19:32:35 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:13:04PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> This seems to be triggered by PLL setup issues.  There is a somewhat
>> larger than I would like rewrite of this whole algorithm in mainline.
>> This seems to fix the issue for the reporters.
>>
>> I think we want this for Lucid, but it is rather large.  Comments?
>
> There's been a ton of these bug reports come over the wire, which appear
> to need pll quirking, so despite the size of the patch it sounds like it
> could enable addressing issues on a broad range of hardware.

Bryce, what do you think of the proposal to leave the default as is,
and allow people to enable it afterwards? Is that good enough, or does
this hit so many people that we're better off enabling it now and
backing it out if it catastrophically breaks things?

-- Chase




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