Linux 5.10-rc4; graphics alignment
Thomas Zimmermann
tzimmermann at suse.de
Fri Nov 20 10:13:32 UTC 2020
Hi
Am 20.11.20 um 10:52 schrieb David Laight:
>> Hi David
>>
>> Am 18.11.20 um 23:01 schrieb David Laight:
> ...
>> Did you try Daniel's suggestion of testing with the direct parent commit?
> (I was on holiday yesterday and didn't want to spend a sunny
> afternoon doing bisects.)
Makes sense :)
>
> I've just done that and it is bad.
>
> Is there any way to bisect through the parts of the
> drm merge patch into v5.10-rc1 ?
>
> That ought to be quicker (and less error prone) than
> the bisect builds I was doing.
>
> Note that the stack 'splat' is due to a later change.
> It is separate from the broken pixel alignment.
>
> I actually saw the vga text go 'funny' while the boot
> was outputting all the [OK] messages (from systemd?)
> before the graphic login stole tty1 (bloody stupid
> to use tty1).
>
> I don't need to use the failing system today, I'll
> have another go at isolating the failure.
You can use drm-tip for testing, where many of the DRM patches go through.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip/
It's fairly up-to-date.
I have two systems with AST chips and neither shows any of the symptoms
you describe; nor do we have such reports about drivers that use a
similar stack (hibmc, bochs). Could you provide the output of
dmesg | grep drm
Best regards
Thomas
>
> David
>
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