APPLIED: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][Bionic] Enable BIOS workaround for system crashes

[Khaled Elmously]

Applied to Bionic


On 2018-05-27 20:29:23 , Alex Hung wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773299
> 
> [Impact]
>   
>   Some Dell systems crash when disabling Nvidia dGPU with I+N configurations
>   because Nvidia's driver does not supports RTD3.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
>   BIOS added solutions with _OSI string "Linux-Dell-Video" to workaround RTD3, 
>   and a patch to report _OSI("Linux-Dell-Video") is required in Linux kernel.
> 
>   The patches are included in upstream and are cherry-picked from Linus's repo.
> 
> [Regression potential]
> 
>   No regression as all but targeted firmware will not use this _OSI string 
> 
> Alex Hung (1):
>   ACPI / OSI: Add OEM _OSI strings to disable NVidia RTD3
> 
>  drivers/acpi/osi.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
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> 2.17.0
> 
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