linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.36-rc5 i915 regression

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Date:	Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:28:25 +0100
From:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:	Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@....tu-ilmenau.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc5 i915 regression

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:00:05 +0200, Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@....tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:
> With 2.6.36-rc5 and later my netbook is unusable. After login on X (KDE) the
> screen gets totally garbled, under X and console too. The log shows me this
> messages:

My humble apologies, fixed in 2.6.36-rc6:

commit 9b74f7348f214b1f99819f0d0da4a1cbabb1e740
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Wed Sep 22 19:10:44 2010 +0100

    drm/i915: Fix 945GM regression in e259befd
    
    A minor typo caused a single fence register to be incorrectly
    programmed, resulting in occassional tiling corruption.
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Bruin <bruinjm@...all.nl>
    Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18962
    Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: stable@...nel.org

It appears to have bitten worse than just the occasional gfx corruption.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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