[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/radeon: fix ATPX detection on non-VGA GPUs" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Apr 30 12:55:26 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/radeon: fix ATPX detection on non-VGA GPUs

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:44:34 -0400
Subject: drm/radeon: fix ATPX detection on non-VGA GPUs
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commit e9a4099a59cc598a44006059dd775c25e422b772 upstream.

Some newer PX laptops have the pci device class
set to DISPLAY_OTHER rather than DISPLAY_VGA.  This
properly detects ATPX on those laptops.

Based on a patch from: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Cc: airlied at gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c
index cbb06d7..8c44ef5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c
@@ -523,6 +523,13 @@ static bool radeon_atpx_detect(void)
 		has_atpx |= (radeon_atpx_pci_probe_handle(pdev) == true);
 	}

+	/* some newer PX laptops mark the dGPU as a non-VGA display device */
+	while ((pdev = pci_get_class(PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_OTHER << 8, pdev)) != NULL) {
+		vga_count++;
+
+		has_atpx |= (radeon_atpx_pci_probe_handle(pdev) == true);
+	}
+
 	if (has_atpx && vga_count == 2) {
 		acpi_get_name(radeon_atpx_priv.atpx.handle, ACPI_FULL_PATHNAME, &buffer);
 		printk(KERN_INFO "VGA switcheroo: detected switching method %s handle\n",
--
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