linux-kernel - Re: Regression of v4.6-rc vs. v4.5 bisected: a98ee79317b4 "drm/i915/fbc: enable FBC by default on HSW and BDW"

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Date:	Sun, 8 May 2016 12:18:18 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Zanoni, Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@...el.com>
Cc:	"airlied@...hat.com" <airlied@...hat.com>,
	"intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"Vetter, Daniel" <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Regression of v4.6-rc vs. v4.5 bisected: a98ee79317b4
 "drm/i915/fbc: enable FBC by default on HSW and BDW"

On May 05 Zanoni, Paulo R wrote:
> If you don't want to keep carrying a manual revert, you can just boot
> with i915.enable_fbc=0 for now (or write a /etc/modprobe.d file). Also,
> it would be good to know in case you still somehow see the machine
> hangs even with FBC disabled.

As expected, i915.enable_fbc=0 works fine.
No freeze within 2.5 days uptime; tested on v4.6-rc6.
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Stefan Richter
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