[Intel-gfx] Intel graphics corruption

[Fennec Fox]

do you know how to make the intel-drm-nightly kernel mentioned in this
bugfix   id like to use that until 3.19 lands

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 11:29:09PM -0600, Fennec Fox wrote:
>> well on my arch machine with an intel gma 4 graphics card using
>> xfree86-video-intel   im seeing lots of graphics corruption  i can
>> give images it it would help
>
> I presume you filed https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87065
> and so know by that this was fixed by
>
> commit 656bfa3afc14e45e2d9e1624bf60d79b3beb12f2
> Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Date:   Thu Nov 20 09:26:30 2014 +0100
>
>     drm/i915: Pin tiled objects for L-shaped configs
>
>     Let's just throw in the towel on this one and take the cheap way out.
>
>     Based on a patch from Chris Wilson, but checking for a different bit.
>     Chris' patch checked for even bank layout, this one here for a magic
>     bit. Given the evidence we've gathered (not much) both work I think,
>     but checking for the magic bit might be more accurate.
>
>     Anyway, works on my gm45 here.
>
>     For paranoi restrict to gen4 (and mobile), since we've only ever seen
>     this on gm45 and i965gm.
>
>     Also add some debugfs output so that we can skip the tiled swapping
>     tests properly in these cases.
>
>     v2: Clean up the quirk'ed pin count in free_object to avoid upsetting
>     the WARN_ON. Spotted by Chris.
> -Chris
>
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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