Bug 55291 - does not boot. Bad commit 2a9810441fcc26cf3f006f015f8a62094fe57a90
Summary: does not boot. Bad commit 2a9810441fcc26cf3f006f015f8a62094fe57a90
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Video(DRI - Intel) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: intel-gfx-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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Reported: 2013-03-15 16:34 UTC by Martin Ziegler
Modified: 2013-03-21 10:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 3.8.3
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Regression: Yes
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Description Martin Ziegler 2013-03-15 16:34:32 UTC 
The boot process stops immediately with a black screen and the machine being non-responsive. Bisecting between 3.8.2 and 3.8.3 gives 

Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Sat Dec 1 21:03:22 2012 +0100

    drm/i915: reorder setup sequence to have irqs for output setup

as the first bad commit. 

His is on a Thinkpad T510, with an integrated Intel Graphic Chip.

This seems to be related to https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/14/540
Comment 1 Daniel Vetter 2013-03-18 10:06:16 UTC 
Ok, I think we need to revert this mess and simply give up on ilk rc6 in 3.8 (which was the reason this patch here has been backported). I've just sent a mail to gregkh and the stable team.
Comment 2 Martin Ziegler 2013-03-21 10:22:35 UTC 
3.8.4 boots again. Thanks!
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