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

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Date:   Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:59:54 +0100
From:   Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Intel Gfx Mailing List <intel-gfx@...edesktop.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [REGRESSION] Linux 4.9-rc4: gfx glitches on Intel      Sandybridge (was: Re: Linux 4.9-rc4)

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