Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67;
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <20190814213118.28473-1-kherbst@redhat.com> <20190814213118.28473-2-kherbst@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190814213118.28473-2-kherbst@redhat.com>
From:   Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:47:35 +1000
Message-ID: <CAPM=9ty7yEUqKrcixV1tTuWCpyh6UikA3rxX8BF1E3fDb6WLQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 1/7] Revert "ACPI / OSI: Add OEM _OSI string to
 enable dGPU direct output"
To:     Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
        nouveau <nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
        Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 07:31, Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 28586a51eea666d5531bcaef2f68e4abbd87242c.
>
> 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.
>
> 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@redhat.com>
Dave.