REGRESSION: no console on current -git

[Mirsad Todorovac]

On 1/20/24 01:32, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 1/19/24 5:27 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
>> On 1/19/24 22:22, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 1/19/24 2:14 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
>>>> On 1/19/24 22:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On 1/19/24 1:55 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
>>>>>> Adding Mirsad Todorovac (who reported a similar issue).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/19/24 19:39, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>> My trusty R7525 test box is failing to show a console, or in fact anything,
>>>>>>> on current -git. There's no output after:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Loading Linux 6.7.0+ ...
>>>>>>> Loading initial ramdisk ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and I don't get a console up. I went through the bisection pain and
>>>>>>> found this was the culprit:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> commit df67699c9cb0ceb70f6cc60630ca938c06773eda
>>>>>>> Author: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>>>>>>> Date:   Wed Jan 3 11:15:11 2024 +0100
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         firmware/sysfb: Clear screen_info state after consuming it
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reverting this commit, and everything is fine. Looking at dmesg with a
>>>>>>> buggy kernel, I get no frame or fb messages. On a good kernel, it looks
>>>>>>> ilke this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [    1.416486] efifb: probing for efifb
>>>>>>> [    1.416602] efifb: framebuffer at 0xde000000, using 3072k, total 3072k
>>>>>>> [    1.416605] efifb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=1
>>>>>>> [    1.416607] efifb: scrolling: redraw
>>>>>>> [    1.416608] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
>>>>>>> [    1.449746] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Happy to test a fix, or barring that, can someone just revert this
>>>>>>> commit please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've temporarily added a revert patch into the fbdev for-next tree for now,
>>>>>> so people should not face the issue in the for-next series:
>>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git/commit/?h=for-next
>>>>>> I'd like to wait for Thomas to return on monday to check the issue
>>>>>> as there are some other upcoming patches in this area from him.
>>>>>
>>>>> Given the issue (and that I'm not the only one reporting it), can we
>>>>> please just get that pushed so it'll make -rc1? It can always get
>>>>> re-introduced in a fixed fashion. I don't run -next here, I rely on
>>>>> mainline working for my testing.
>>>>
>>>> I agree, it would be good to get it fixed for -rc1.
>>>> So, it's ok for me, but I won't be able to test the revert short time right now.
>>>> If you can assure that the revert fixes it, and builds in git-head,
>>>> I can now prepare the pull request for Linus now (or he just reverts
>>>> commit df67699c9cb0 manually).
>>>
>>> I already tested a revert on top of the current tree, and it builds just
>>> fine and boots with a working console. So reverting it does work and
>>> solves the issue.
>>
>> I sent a pull request with the revert.
> 
> Thanks! You forgot the Reported-by, but no big deal.

Hi,

I confirm that this revert df67699c9cb0ce also solved the original initrd boot problem
here:

  1991  git checkout d97a78423c33
  1992  git revert df67699c9cb0ce
  1993  make clean; make olddefconfig
  1994  time nice make -j 36 bindeb-pkg |& tee ../err-6.8-mrg-1.log; date
  1995  sudo apt-get -s install ../linux-image-6.7.0-bagas-vanilla-rvt-09751-g6b082430adc8_6.7.0-09751-g6b082430adc8-26_amd64.deb
  1996  sudo apt-get -y install ../linux-image-6.7.0-bagas-vanilla-rvt-09751-g6b082430adc8_6.7.0-09751-g6b082430adc8-26_amd64.deb

You might add:

	Tested-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac at alu.unizg.hr>

at your convenience.

Best regards,
Mirsad