[Bug 102830] [QM67] Screen Flickering Until Error

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102830

--- Comment #17 from Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> ---
(In reply to Yan-Fa Li from comment #11)
> I thought I would mention that this is an incredibly painful thing to ask
> your userbase to do. I've been waiting a couple of hours for a full kernel
> to build and it's still not complete. I'm pretty sure asking normal
> non-developers to do this is possibly the most hostile thing you can do.
> Hopefully one day you guys can come up with a better system, like a
> diagnostic program that someone can compile easily and just run on their
> system. I'll let it finish building, but I just wanted to point this out to
> you folks.

To be blunt, this bugzilla for drm/i915 really isn't intended for normal
non-developers. Sometimes it works out, but more often than not we can't
reproduce the bugs ourselves, and we need to have the bug reporters test kernel
patches. That means configuring and building the kernel.

The alternative for normal end-users is your distro bug database.

FWIW, the long build time is likely due to using a distro kernel config which
will build literally thousands of kernel modules that your machine won't ever
need. Also make sure to use make -j<N> option for parallel builds.

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