Linux 5.10-rc4; graphics alignment

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 20.11.20 um 11:51 schrieb David Laight:
> From: Thomas Zimmermann
>> Sent: 20 November 2020 10:14
> ...
>>> 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.
> 
> Any idea of tags either side of the 5.10 merge?

The final commit before v5.9 appears to be

   Fixes: 33c8256b3bcc ("drm/amd/display: Change ABM config init interface")

I'd try this as a good commit. For the bad commit, just try HEAD.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
>> 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
> 
> [    2.112303] fb0: switching to astdrmfb from EFI VGA
> [    2.120222] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] Using P2A bridge for configuration
> [    2.120233] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] AST 2400 detected
> [    2.120247] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] Analog VGA only
> [    2.120257] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] dram MCLK=408 Mhz type=1 bus_width=16
> [    2.121121] [drm] Initialized ast 0.1.0 20120228 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0
> [    2.125838] fbcon: astdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
> [    2.152179] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] fb0: astdrmfb frame buffer device
> [    6.061034] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Load Kernel Module drm being skipped.
> 
> The output is the same for both good and bad kernels.
> 
> 	David
> 
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