[PATCH 0/2] [lucid] LP#538377 -- Radeon HDMI output turns off randomly
Chase Douglas
chase.douglas at canonical.com
Thu Apr 8 23:36:51 UTC 2010
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 03:32:35PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Bugs 537640, 543045, 543265, and 544662 (and their dupes) are marked as
> needing the pll quirk, which makes me think this affects a lot of
> people. This seems to be an R5xx issue, and R5xx cards are pretty
> widespread (recall that in karmic R5xx was the newest radeon card where
> you could get 3D acceleration with the open driver).
>
> So, I think in this case putting the patch in and watching for errors is
> probably the right way to go. I've gotten really well caught up with
> -radeon bug reports currently, and plan to keep a tight watch from here
> to release, so if this patch were to lead to regressions getting
> reported, we should be able to spot it swiftly.
This appeases me then.
Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
-- Chase
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