[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/radeon/atom: fix dithering on certain panels" 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/radeon/atom: fix dithering on certain panels

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 3.8.13.27.

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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>From 9102ef0d290f01247918f5a519d8fa4a96eaf370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:40:51 -0400
Subject: drm/radeon/atom: fix dithering on certain panels

commit 642528355c694f5ed68f6bff9ff520326a249f99 upstream.

We need to specify the encoder mode as LVDS for eDP
when using the Crtc_Source atom table in order to properly
set up the FMT hardware.

bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73911

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
index 71619b0..f04f3c9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
@@ -1877,8 +1877,11 @@ atombios_set_encoder_crtc_source(struct drm_encoder *encoder)
 					args.v2.ucEncodeMode = ATOM_ENCODER_MODE_CRT;
 				else
 					args.v2.ucEncodeMode = atombios_get_encoder_mode(encoder);
-			} else
+			} else if (radeon_encoder->devices & (ATOM_DEVICE_LCD_SUPPORT)) {
+				args.v2.ucEncodeMode = ATOM_ENCODER_MODE_LVDS;
+			} else {
 				args.v2.ucEncodeMode = atombios_get_encoder_mode(encoder);
+			}
 			switch (radeon_encoder->encoder_id) {
 			case ENCODER_OBJECT_ID_INTERNAL_UNIPHY:
 			case ENCODER_OBJECT_ID_INTERNAL_UNIPHY1:
--
1.9.1