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Commit 736a69ca authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson Committed by Jani Nikula
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drm/i915: Drop PIPE-A quirk for 945GSE HP Mini



Since the introduction of BIOS fb preservation, circa 3.17, we began
encountering a failure during boot when trying to use force-detect
before GEM was initialised. That bug is from

commit 7fad798e
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Wed Jul 4 17:51:47 2012 +0200

    drm/i915: ensure the force pipe A quirk is actually followed

but investigation of the affected machine revealed that it was using a
PIPE-A quirk even though it was a 945GSE and the quirk is only supposed
to be used to workaround a hardware issue on 830/845. That quirk was
added for this HP Mini in

commit 6b93afc564a5e74b0eaaa46c95f557449951b3b9
Author: Bryce Harrington <bryce@bryceharrington.org>
Date:   Wed May 27 03:40:52 2009 -0700

    add pipe a force quirk for Dell mini

in order to workaround an issue with the BIOS behaving strangely during
lid-close. Since then we have a much larger hammer to thwart the BIOS
after opening the lid and the PIPE-A quirk is no longer required.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarApostolos B. <barz621@gmail.com>
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21960
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87521


Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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