[Intel-gfx] [git pull] drm for 3.10-rc1

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:25:57AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>The following changes since commit b6a9b7f6b1f21735a7456d534dc0e68e61359d2c:
>>
>>  mm: prevent mmap_cache race in find_vma() (2013-04-04 11:46:28 -0700)
>>
>>are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>  git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux.git drm-next
>>
>>for you to fetch changes up to 307b9c022720f9de90d58e51743e01e9a42aec59:
>>
>>  qxl: update to new idr interfaces. (2013-05-03 10:37:20 +1000)
>>
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>
> So something in this batch of commits breaks a Macbook Pro Retina I have
> sitting here.  If I boot a Fedora kernel based on  Linux
> v3.9-8153-g5a148af, things boot up as they did previously with 3.9.0 and
> are generally working fine.  If I boot with a kernel based on Linux
> v3.9-8933-gce85722, it will boot but as soon as plymouth starts, I get
> nothing but static on the screen (like 1950s TV static).
>
> This machine is using i915 graphics, so I booted with nomodeset and did
> the 'modprobe drm debug=15; modprobe i915 modeset=1' trick and it
> repeated the failure with that.  I've gathered a bunch of data like
> dmesg, an intel_reg_snapshot, etc.  It's all attached below.
>
> I'll start bisecting to see if I can narrow down the commit that broke
> things, but I thought I would give a heads up now in case anyone has any
> ideas.

Looked through the log files and didn't see a clue. And usually DP
tends to fail pretty noisily. So I think the bisect result would be
interestin. Meanwhile:
- do you have drm.debug=0xe dmesg for a working kernel, too?
- is the panel completely dead or is just the backlight on (or panel
on but backlight off)?

Thanks, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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