Re: 2.5.64-mm6

[Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com>]

Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:

> Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've used tried the -mm-kernels since they've actually made
> > 2.5-kernels usable on my laptop lately (Compaq Evo800c), but
> > 2.5.64-mm2 and onwards doesnt work with X anymore. I run 4.3.0-r1 from
> > the Gentoo unstable "branch".
> > 
> > with -mm1 I X coming up just nicely, and now the screen just goes
> > black after trying to start X, and it seems related to DRM.
> 
> I have a radeon card here.  Just tried it.  The X server starts up OK but as
> soon as I run tuxracer, some ioctl down in the radeon driver keeps on timing
> out waiting for the FIFO, spins for ten milliseconds in-kernel and the X
> server immediately calls the ioctl again.  The whole thing is bust.  I went
> all the way back to 2.5.39, where it is still bust.  2.4.21-pre5 is OK
> though.
> 
> So it looks like my breakage is different from yours.
> 
> Could you please try just 2.5.64 plus
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.64/2.5.64-mm6/broken-out/linus.patch
> 
> That will tell us if it is a -mm bug or a -linus bug.
> 

Vanilla 2.5.64 is b0rken, too. Tried it, and went back and tries -mm6
with and without ACPI as well, no difference. So instead of trudging
through that liste of change sets, I'll back out one and one patch
from -mm1 back to plain .64 to see where the thing goes belly
up. Seems reasonable?

mvh,
A
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