Comment 4 for bug 1042903

HP offshore team tried 3.5.0-13.13 kernel and they were seeing the same
problem.

On 08/28/2012 04:24 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> I wanted to relay the following here in the bug report...I was notified
> of a commit in the latest upstream v3.5.3 release. I thought it would
> be interesting to test the latest Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.13 which was rebased
> to this latest v3.5.3 upstream stable release. Narinder and I didn't
> originally test this latest Ubuntu kernel as I only uploaded it
> yesterday. Anyways, I see the following commit included there:
>
> commit be67f30591ffe86e250955645a97e3d68f5a2cdf
> Author: Dave Airlie <email address hidden>
> Date: Thu Aug 9 15:00:15 2012 +1000
>
> drm/mgag200: fix G200ER pll picking algorithm
>
> commit 9830605d4c070b16ec5c24a75503877cc7698409 upstream.
>
> The original code was misported from the X driver,
>
> a) an int went to unsigned int, breaking the downward counting testm code
> b) the port did the vco/computed clock bits completely wrong.
>
> This fixes an infinite loop on modprobe on some Dell servers with the G200ER
> chipset variant.
>
> Found in internal testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
>
> So the issue which was being seen might be the fix with the above and
> thus allow us to keep the mgag200 driver enabled. I figured it wouldn't
> hurt to test anyways. Thanks.
>

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