On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 04:27:27PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Larry Finger wrote: > >> To anyone keeping track of regressions in kernel 4.7, I call your > >> attention to > >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96675. > >> > >> This bug causes driver i915 to fail to connect to the display, and results > >> in > >> a blank screen as soon as the kernel is loaded. The only way to operate > >> with > >> kernel 4.7 is to add "nomodeset" to the command line. The problem was > >> bisected > >> to commit f21a21983ef13a ("drm/i915: Splitting intel_dp_detect"). > > > > Daniel? Jani? Time to revert? > > Yup. Means that I'll get to revert a pile of patches (plus even more > in -next), but that's what we get for not handling regressions timely. > Dave poked me about the same bug already too. But will take a few days > until the pull is in your inbox I guess.
I attached a oneliner to the bug today, that I *think* should fix the problem. -- Ville Syrjälä Intel OTC
