Re: [Intel-gfx] [REGRESSION] Linux 4.9-rc4: gfx glitches on Intel Sandybridge (was: Re: Linux 4.9-rc4)

From: Martin Steigerwald
Date: Wed Nov 09 2016 - 05:00:02 EST


Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2016, 11:42:36 CET schrieb Jani Nikula:
> > *However*, I got a soft freeze and a hard freeze (well after about a
> > minute I gave up and rebooted by pressing power button long enough to
> > forcefully switch off the laptop) when playing PlaneShift using
> > drm-intel-fixes branch.
> >
> > Unfortunately I have no further time to debug any of this week, but it
> > seems not all fixes are there are ready for next stable kernel.
>
> Current drm-intel-fixes is just six commits on top of -rc4, and it's
> very hard for me to believe any of those would cause the symptoms you
> see. I presume the problem, whatever it is, is already in -rc4.
>
> That, of course, is not a happy thing per se, but please don't block the
> current batch of fixes by making unsubstantiated claims. Please do file
> a bug about that issue over at [1] so we don't hijack this thread.

You are right. I have no comparison with 4.9-rc4 due to the graphics glitches
I had in it.

--
Martin