ACK: [SRU][Bionic][PATCH 0/1] drm/i915/bios: filter out invalid DDC pins from VBT child devices

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Thu May 17 02:33:56 UTC 2018


On 2018-05-11 12:56:05 , Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764194
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> This bug causes a Dell Latitude 5490/5590 with BIOS update 1.1.9 to get a
> black screen at boot. Specifying 'nomodeset' on the kernel command line works
> around the problem.
> 
> Intel resolved the problem in upstream commit a3520b8992e5.  This commit
> is now in mainline as of 4.17.rc2.  It has also been cc'd to upstream
> stable.
> 
> This patch is also needed in Artful.  Artful needed a minor backport, so
> it is being sent separate of Bionic.
> 
> == Fix ==
> a3520b8992e5 ("drm/i915/bios: filter out invalid DDC pins from VBT child devices")
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low.  This commit was also cc'd to upstream stable, so it recieved
> additional upstream review.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> 
> Jani Nikula (1):
>   drm/i915/bios: filter out invalid DDC pins from VBT child devices
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>





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