[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/edid: add quirk for BPC in Samsung NP700G7A-S01PL notebook" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    drm/edid: add quirk for BPC in Samsung NP700G7A-S01PL notebook

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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commit 49d45a31b71d7d9da74485922bdb63faf3dc9684 upstream.

This bug in EDID was exposed by:

commit eccea7920cfb009c2fa40e9ecdce8c36f61cab66
Author: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 26 15:12:54 2012 -0400

    drm/radeon/kms: improve bpc handling (v2)

Which resulted in kind of regression in 3.5. This fixes
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70934

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
index 70fc133..9beb790 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
 #define EDID_QUIRK_DETAILED_SYNC_PP		(1 << 6)
 /* Force reduced-blanking timings for detailed modes */
 #define EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_REDUCED_BLANKING	(1 << 7)
+/* Force 8bpc */
+#define EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_8BPC			(1 << 8)

 struct detailed_mode_closure {
 	struct drm_connector *connector;
@@ -128,6 +130,9 @@ static struct edid_quirk {

 	/* Medion MD 30217 PG */
 	{ "MED", 0x7b8, EDID_QUIRK_PREFER_LARGE_75 },
+
+	/* Panel in Samsung NP700G7A-S01PL notebook reports 6bpc */
+	{ "SEC", 0xd033, EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_8BPC },
 };

 /*
@@ -3032,6 +3037,9 @@ int drm_add_edid_modes(struct drm_connector *connector, struct edid *edid)

 	drm_add_display_info(edid, &connector->display_info);

+	if (quirks & EDID_QUIRK_FORCE_8BPC)
+		connector->display_info.bpc = 8;
+
 	return num_modes;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_add_edid_modes);
--
1.8.3.2