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

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jun 12 22:25:16 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-3.8.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 3.8.13.24.

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: 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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",
--
1.9.1





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