Comment 0 for bug 1770565

A certain OEM laptop changed the panel type/vendor, and the change regressed the driver causing a flickering image. The ODM has tools to measure various values of the driver/panel combination, and determined that some voltage levels were way too low to pass the spec. The process to bisect the commits took weeks, so while it's technically possible that this issue was fixed by a single commit (drm/i915: Ignore OpRegion panel type except on select machines), we've also kept another 10 commits which upstream thought should help (and did, they improved the measured values but not enough).

So, this backport carries all 11 commits from 4.8/4.9 that the ODM verified to pass the tests.