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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 60d6b35..559f49b 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 },
 };

 /*** DDC fetch and block validation ***/
@@ -2034,6 +2039,9 @@ 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