linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] Skylake graphics regression: projector failure with 4.8-rc3

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <87oa3jm1hs.fsf@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:14:39 +0300
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        "Zanoni\, Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@...el.com>,
        "dri-devel\@lists.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "intel-gfx\@lists.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] Skylake graphics regression: projector failure with 4.8-rc3

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 08:09 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
>> On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 13:35 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> > Hi! James & Paulo: What's the current status of this?
>> 
>> No, the only interaction has been the suggestion below for a revert,
>> which didn't fix the problem.
>> 
>> >  Was this issue discussed elsewhere or even fixed in between? Just 
>> > asking, because this issue is on the list of regressions for 4.8.
>> 
>> 
>> I'm just about to try out -rc7, but it's not fixed so far.
>
> OK, with -rc7 and the i915 fixes, there seems to be a marked
> improvement.  I can no longer crash the crtc by using lots of xrandr
> switches, which was the principal problem.
>
> I've so far only got one of these in the logs
>
> [14858.635035] [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR*
> CPU pipe B FIFO underrun
>
> And the only residual problem seems to be that the monitor goes blank
> periodically, but this can be fixed by switching resolution a couple of
> times.
>
> I haven't seen any of the link training errors so far and I've run
> through my usual battery of be nasty to the external monitor tests.

Thanks for the update. We still have fixes for the underruns in the
pipeline.

BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center