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From: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:04:22 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set_par
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>, Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, airlied@redhat.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 15:08 +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
> > Since commit 27a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459
> >     fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt
> > 
> > a PPC64LE kernel fails to boot when fbcon_add_cursor_timer uses an
> > uninitialized ops->cur_blink_jiffies. Prevent by initializing
> > in fbcon_init before the call to info->fbops->fb_set_par.
> 
> Any reason that hasn't hit upstream (and stable) yet ? This is pretty
> major...

It's currently in the tty-linus branch of Greg's tty tree, so should be 
included in the next rc.