Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 1/7] Revert "ACPI / OSI: Add OEM _OSI string to enable dGPU direct output"

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 07:31, Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This reverts commit 28586a51eea666d5531bcaef2f68e4abbd87242c.
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> The original commit message didn't even make sense. AMD _does_ support it and
> it works with Nouveau as well.
>
> Also what was the issue being solved here? No references to any bugs and not
> even explaining any issue at all isn't the way we do things.
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> And even if it means a muxed design, then the fix is to make it work inside the
> driver, not adding some hacky workaround through ACPI tricks.
>
> And what out of tree drivers do or do not support we don't care one bit anyway.
>

I think the reverts should be merged via Rafael's tree as the original
patches went in via there, and we should get them in asap.

Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
Dave.