[Intel-gfx] Regression on 5.19.12, display flickering on Framework laptop

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 04:44:35PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 03:40:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 06:46:10AM -0500, David Matthew Mattli wrote:
> > > Thorsten Leemhuis writes:
> > > 
> > > > On 03.10.22 19:48, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > >> On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 08:45:18PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > >>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 12:07:39PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > >>>> On 30.09.22 14:26, Jerry Ling wrote:
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> looks like someone has done it:
> > > >>>>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2059823#p2059823
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> and the bisect points to:
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> |# first bad commit: [fc6aff984b1c63d6b9e54f5eff9cc5ac5840bc8c]
> > > >>>>> drm/i915/bios: Split VBT data into per-panel vs. global parts Best, Jerry
> > > |
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> FWIW, that's 3cf050762534 in mainline. Adding Ville, its author to the
> > > >>>> list of recipients.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I definitely had no plans to backport any of that stuff,
> > > >>> but I guess the automagics did it anyway.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Looks like stable is at least missing this pile of stuff:
> > > >>> 50759c13735d drm/i915/pps: Keep VDD enabled during eDP probe
> > > >>> 67090801489d drm/i915/pps: Reinit PPS delays after VBT has been fully
> > > parsed
> > > >>> 8e75e8f573e1 drm/i915/pps: Split PPS init+sanitize in two
> > > >>> 586294c3c186 drm/i915/pps: Stash away original BIOS programmed PPS delays
> > > >>> 89fcdf430599 drm/i915/pps: Don't apply quirks/etc. to the VBT PPS
> > > >>> delays if they haven't been initialized
> > > >>> 60b02a09598f drm/i915/pps: Introduce pps_delays_valid()
> > > >>>
> > > >>> But dunno if even that is enough.
> > > >
> > > > If you need testers: David (now CCed) apparently has a affected machine
> > > > and offered to test patches in a different subthread of this thread.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I cherry-picked the six commits Thorsten listed onto 5.19.12 and it
> > > resolved the issue on my Framework laptop.
> > 
> > Thanks for testing, but I'm just going to revert the offending commits
> > as they probably shouldn't all be added to 5.19.y
> 
> Yeah, revert seems the safer route. Thanks.

5.19.13 is now released with 8 reverts for this driver, hopefully that
sould resolve this issue.

thanks,

greg k-h