diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
index 2c555f91bfae..1a431377d83b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
@@ -1401,6 +1401,26 @@ static void intel_dp_get_config(struct intel_encoder *encoder,
 		else
 			pipe_config->port_clock = 270000;
 	}
+
+	if (is_edp(intel_dp) && dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp &&
+	    pipe_config->pipe_bpp > dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp) {
+		/*
+		 * This is a big fat ugly hack.
+		 *
+		 * Some machines in UEFI boot mode provide us a VBT that has 18
+		 * bpp and 1.62 GHz link bandwidth for eDP, which for reasons
+		 * unknown we fail to light up. Yet the same BIOS boots up with
+		 * 24 bpp and 2.7 GHz link. Use the same bpp as the BIOS uses as
+		 * max, not what it tells us to use.
+		 *
+		 * Note: This will still be broken if the eDP panel is not lit
+		 * up by the BIOS, and thus we can't get the mode at module
+		 * load.
+		 */
+		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("pipe has %d bpp for eDP panel, overriding BIOS-provided max %d bpp\n",
+			      pipe_config->pipe_bpp, dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp);
+		dev_priv->vbt.edp_bpp = pipe_config->pipe_bpp;
+	}
 }
 
 static bool is_edp_psr(struct intel_dp *intel_dp)