[now bisected] i915: 2.6.36-rc2 hoses my Intel display

[Chris Wilson]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:46:41 -0600, Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:37:52 +0100
> Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > drm.debug=0x4 should print the right information for this bug.
> 
> That doesn't seem to give me any output at all.
> 
> One thing I noticed, though, is that I occasionally get something like:
> 
> Aug 23 17:43:14 bike kernel: [  142.920185] [drm:intel_calculate_wm] *ERROR* Insufficient FIFO for plane, expect flickering: entries required = 51, available = 28.
> 
> They seem to come in threes, for whatever that's worth.

In threes. Hmm, one for primary, cursor and self-refresh. drm.debug=0xe
would be interesting to see what the pixel clock is.

Can you grab one before the bad commit and one after? If there is a change
that may help pin-point the mistake. Or indicate further problems...

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre