radeon_fbdev_river_fbdev: failed to initialize framebuffer and setup emulation

[Christian Zigotzky]

> On 08 August 2025 um 01:23 pm, Mario Limonciello <superm1 at kernel.org> wrote:
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>> On 8/8/25 2:36 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> On 07 August 2025 at 04:21 pm, Limonciello, Mario <Mario.Limonciello at amd.com> wrote:
>> Does applying
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/907a7a2e5bf40c6a359b2f6cc53d6fdca04009e0
>> help?
>> - - -
>> Hello Mario,
>> Thanks a lot for your patch.
>> I tested it today but unfortunately it doesn’t solve the issue with the Radeon framebuffer.
>> I have created two kernels with and without the drm-next-2025-07-30 updates [1] because of the issue with the Radeon graphics framebuffer device #15. [2]
>> Download and further information: https://github.com/chzigotzky/kernels/releases/tag/v6.17.0-alpha5
>> I have tested both kernels this week and I can definitely confirm, that the issue is somewhere in the commit drm-next-2025-07-30 updates [1].
>> The Radeon graphics framebuffer doesn't work with the kernel with the drm-next-2025-07-30 updates [1]. Without these updates, the framebuffer works.
>> I bisected yesterday. [2]
>> There are some other user reports:
>> - https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?p=60606#p60606
>> - https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?p=60595#p60595
>> They use other Radeon graphics chips.
>> @All
>> Please check the drm-next-2025-07-30 updates [1]
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>> [1] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=260f6f4fda93c8485c8037865c941b42b9cba5d2
>> [2] https://github.com/chzigotzky/kernels/issues/15
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> I think there is a mistake in your bisect, which I notice from looking at your other user reports.
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> The original commit you identified in your bisect and thus CC'ed me came in 6.16-rc1.
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> ❯ git describe --contains 4d4c10f763d7808fbade28d83d237411603bca05
> v6.16-rc1~50^2~19^2
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> There absolutely was a regression for that was raised, but this was fixed in 6.16-rc3.
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> ❯ git describe --contains 907a7a2e5bf40c6a359b2f6cc53d6fdca04009e0
> v6.16-rc3~13^2~1
> 
> Users in your forums posts talk about 6.16 final working fine.  So I think that when you bisected you ran into multiple confounding issues and replicated in a similar fashion.  You should check every single bisect step to see if 4d4c10f763d7808fbade28d83d237411603bca05 is applied.  If it's applied but 907a7a2e5bf40c6a359b2f6cc53d6fdca04009e0 is not applied in that step you should apply 907a7a2e5bf40c6a359b2f6cc53d6fdca04009e0.
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> Hopefully that will get you down to the real cause.

Thanks for the hint. Unfortunately I don’t have more time for figuring out the issue.

Two facts:

- The Radeon driver can no longer be used.
The Radeon driver is broken for us.

- The issue is somewhere in the commit drm-next-2025-07-30 updates [1].

I cannot provide any more due to time constraints.

I've already spent time that I didn't actually have.

Thanks for your help.

Christian