Re: More breakage on HD7480D [ Aruba ]

Ken Moffat
2014-05-12T01:03:15Z

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:34:06AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:

/me swears at myself for failing to copy to lkml.

> Hi Christian, Alex -
>
> my A4 Trinity (Radeon HD7480D) was working fine by -rc3. But now
> that I've tested it in -rc5 it is again broken (the screen goes
> blank when KMS starts). Bisection blames:
>
> 3b333c55485fef0089ae7398906599d000df195e is the first bad commit
> commit 3b333c55485fef0089ae7398906599d000df195e
> Author: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> Date: Thu Apr 24 18:39:59 2014 +0200
>
> drm/radeon: avoid high jitter with small frac divs
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
>
> Reverting that from current HEAD [
>
> commit 7e338c9991ecee9c2ac7a4cee2c2e11ecb563d02
> Merge: 9cf22e80df77 aa07c713ecfc
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Sun May 11 18:06:13 2014 +0900
>
> Merge branch 'for-3.15' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
>
> Pull nfsd fixes from Bruce Fields.
>
> ]
> makes it again boot.
>
> Note to Alex - 3.15 has been an "interesting" cycle - you fixed my
> earlier problem, despite my non-response, and thanks again for that.
> After that, my other radeon broke after -rc2 (I retested it after
> rc4 and found that although rc4 was broken, HEAD was fixed, so
> thanks also for that. Then I retested this one for -rc5. It seems
> that my boxes always break when I don't have time to test new
> releases :-(
>
> ĸen
> --
> das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce