GMBUS was enabled over bit-banging as the default in commits:

commit c3dfefa0
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Tue Feb 14 22:37:25 2012 +0100

    drm/i915: reenable gmbus on gen3+ again

and

commit 0fb3f969
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Fri Mar 2 19:38:30 2012 +0100

    drm/i915: enable gmbus on gen2

Unfortunately, GMBUS seems to fail on some CRT displays. Add a bit-banging
fallback to CRT EDID reads.

LKML-Reference: <201207251020.47637.maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45881Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Ferrando <alferpal@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (for 3.4+3.5)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>