Re: further issues with MGA G200 graphics chipset

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 23.04.26 um 21:42 schrieb Jacob Keller:
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> Unfortunately, I also have no better idea than a DMI quirk table to
> record known platforms that include the controller but don't have a
> physical VGA connection exposed.

I'm in favor of this. If you send a meaningful DMI identifier for your 
system, I'd make you a patch for testing.

I don't know of any way for detecting the presence of a physical VGA 
connector BTW.

Best regards
Thomas

> Thus, I'm wondering what else we can do? Using WQ_UNBOUND might help
> somewhat? I have no idea if its safe to sleep instead of spin while
> reading the i2c connections... As far as I can tell the non-atomic
> version has nothing that *strictly* prevents sleep.. but maybe i2c
> access has tighter timing requirements than what usleep_range can
> fulfill? I am not sure...
>
> I'd just really like to not have to worry about going to every single
> user and asking them to unload and ban a driver for these big server
> platforms...

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