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There are two main cases where the default outputs are useful when the
VBT is missing:
- There are some DDI-platform Chromebooks out there that do not have a
VBT, which worked by coincidence because of the default outputs. The
machines need to continue to work.
- Early platform enabling when the VBT might not be available. (This
could be circumvented by using the i915.vbt_firmware parameter.)
Prepare for generating fake child devices for the default outputs by
limiting the number of outputs. We don't want to generate excessive
amounts of fake child devices. This could be perhaps be limited even
more in the future, but match what's possible on all DDI platforms.
Note that limiting the defaults to non-TypeC ports in commit
828ccb31cf41 ("drm/i915/icl: Add TypeC ports only if VBT is present") is
a more strict limit, and makes this a no-op on recent platforms.
v2: Rewrote commit message
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/5c9c9743af1c7265a2c976d582b7a6685ec0c414.1615998927.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.