On 23/02/16 00:38, Matt Roper wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:18:08PM +0000, Lionel Landwerlin wrote: >> Implement Daniel Stone's recommendation to not read registers to infer >> the hardware's state. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com> > Do we need to ensure that software and hardware state are synchronized > at startup? A boot firmware might have set it to something different > before our driver starts up; if we use 'fastboot' then we might not do > any modesets and might wind up with 0 (8BIT) in our state variable, but > something else actually programmed into the hardware. > > > Matt
Thanks Matt, It makes sense know, I couldn't understand why this would ever be at something different that 8bit mode... I guess the value should be read from the intel_color_init() function upon startup. - Lionel
