Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:57:59 -0500 | Subject | Re: drm/radeon/kms regression: 2.6.33-rc2 does not boot | From | Alex Deucher <> |
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On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> wrote: > * Dave Airlie (airlied@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Andrei Gaponenko > > <snip> > >> >> Can you wait for a minute or so and see if it continues? though this sounds like >> >> something different than others have seen. >> > >> > I did let it to sit for many minutes during some of iterations of the >> > bisection; did not notice any progress. >> > >> > Andrei >> > >> > Please Cc me directly on replies. >> >> Did you install the irq firmware from >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ >> >> I need to add a pointer to the Kconfig (just wasn't there when I sent it i). > > I had the same problem (and the same fix); For me it gave up after 60 > seconds of waiting for the firmware and panic'd. > > Unfortunately at that point it was still at a VGA display without > much res, so while I got the backtrace I didn't get the top of the oops. > (and it was too early for netconsole) > > It would be better if the firmware was missing for it just not to do > modeswitching and carry on; I wonder if it was hangcheck or the like > that killed it?
Dave's tree already has support for falling back gracefully if any of the ucode is missing.
Alex
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