[Intel-gfx] Macbook Air 2012

[Daniel Wagner]

Hi Daniel,

On 08/11/2012 11:14 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 04:48:15PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> Am Samstag, den 11.08.2012, 16:05 +0200 schrieb Daniel Wagner:
>>
>>> I installed on my shiny new Macbook Air 2012 Fedora 17. After adding
>>>
>>> intremap=off
>>>
>>> to the kernel arguments, I was able to install the system. The X server
>>> worked out of the box. This was with a 3.3.4 kernel.
>>>
>>> Then I started to upgrade the installation and a newer kernel was
>>> installed 3.5. After the reboot the screen stayed black. Upgrading to
>>> Linus' 3.6-rc1 didn't help either.
>>>
>>> After some research I have tried now Daniel's tree danvet branch
>>> drm-intel-next. Still no success. I also found
>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48652 which sounds awfully
>>> like what I am seeing as symptoms.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, is my graphic trouble debugging skills rather limited. Is
>>> there anything I could provide to resolve this issue?
>>
>> I think there is a fix already [1].
>
> Nope, that's the fix for the new retina macbook pro. Daniel, if you can,
> please test the latest patch attached to that bug report and reply on the
> bug report with the result.

Done as you have requested. Unfortunately, the screen is still black. 
But there seems to be a small improvement. I see for a short time some 
kernel boot message before it turns off.

cheers,
daniel