[Bug 107441] Black or broken VT when loading i915.ko "late"

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--- Comment #11 from Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Jan-Marek Glogowski from comment #9)
> So I applied the patch
> 
> commit 011f22eb545a35f972036bb6a245c95c2e7e15a0
> Author: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri Apr 20 11:59:33 2018 +0200
> 
>     drm/i915: Do NOT skip the first 4k of stolen memory for pre-allocated
> buffers v2
> 
> on top of my DRM backport and now the dmesg output is again
> 
> [    5.912030] [drm:intelfb_create [i915_bpo]] re-using BIOS fb
> [    5.912121] [drm:intelfb_create [i915_bpo]] allocated 1366x768 fb:
> 0x00000000
> 
> instead of the broken
> 
> [    4.244504] [drm:intelfb_create [i915_bpo]] no BIOS fb, allocating a new
> one
> [    4.244538] [drm:intelfb_create [i915_bpo]] allocated fb from stolen
> memory
> [    4.246099] [drm:intelfb_create [i915_bpo]] allocated 1366x768 fb:
> 0x00040000
> 
> Is that what you expected?

Yes. But I'm worrying about your earlier result with 4.18rc7 as that includes
the patch.

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