Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Vetter <> | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:27:27 +0200 | Subject | Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX |
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Larry Finger wrote: >> To anyone keeping track of regressions in kernel 4.7, I call your attention to >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96675. >> >> This bug causes driver i915 to fail to connect to the display, and results in >> a blank screen as soon as the kernel is loaded. The only way to operate with >> kernel 4.7 is to add "nomodeset" to the command line. The problem was bisected >> to commit f21a21983ef13a ("drm/i915: Splitting intel_dp_detect"). > > Daniel? Jani? Time to revert?
Yup. Means that I'll get to revert a pile of patches (plus even more in -next), but that's what we get for not handling regressions timely. Dave poked me about the same bug already too. But will take a few days until the pull is in your inbox I guess. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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